Description: An older woman who wears suspenders and yellow workpants. Her shirt is blue, and she wears a heavy yellow leather apron most of the time, she is not a threatening figure. Her brown hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She bought a ceremonial dagger and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: To end her boredom; and she seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: Deep blue spinel (300 gp).

Description: This northern man is wearing a tight tan one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. His clothes are grease stained in places. His hair is long and white with streaks of blonde, and is pulled back with small tan clips. His beard is blonde, braided, and well cared for. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Hadarai grew up listening to his mother's many stories. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He is a husky man, who wears baggy blue pantaloons and a grey scarf. His long silver hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. This amber eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He hates Elves with a passion. As such he is filled with self loathing. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Map Maker business.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and a strong sense of loyalty to gnomish people

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: This eastern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty black coat over it. Her auburn hair is lengthy. Her amber eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Miner who has hired her part-time. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: Ootah was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. In her 12th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She has recently attracted an admirer that believes she's playing hard to get.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and she's attracted to the pc

Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Fearful. Bonds: Has a crush, Poor. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: This man wears a grey feathered hat and grey clothes. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized amber on his right hand. His head has been shaved. His eyes are blue and beady.

Personality: Nordak wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Sorcerer, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Nordak was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Nordak was born on a far eastern forest where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Hunter. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is greedy

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Rich, Mentor, Immigrant. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep green leather and dull violet iron scale mail. His hair is cut close to his head. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady black eyes.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He is a great chef.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: She has a missing right arm. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). She keeps her long brown fur kept up in a rat tail. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She has all her life been fascinated with poetry.

History: Gifted from a young age, Edge studied abroad. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Persistence, Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 90 gp. White pearl (70 gp). Red spinel (70 gp). Red spinel (70 gp).

Description: She is a physically imposing light-skinned woman. She wears a red collared shirt and brown skirt. She accessorizes with a black scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. Her silver hair is long and unkept. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep blue.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Her family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. She saw this and took pride in her father's willingness to do anything to win. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. He has beige fur. His yellow unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Right-Handed has worked very hard to control his curse. During his travels, Right-Handed and his party rested in a cavern that was (unknown to them) infused with powerful dark magic. Upon awakening, Right-Handed discovered the rest of his party dead, transformed into horrible, mindless undead versions of their former selves. Right-Handed fled the cavern, stopping for breath at a small pool, and only then realizing his own horrible transformation.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero.

Flaws: Disease, Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 140 gp. Lapis lazuli (15 gp).