Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with grey lining and desert motifs. He wears a colorful flower in his chestnut hair. His green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. A freak accident while working with his Knight mother left him crippled. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears a brown vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her yellow leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her brown boots flare out at the collars. Her fur is cut close to her head. Her fierce copper eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. A freak accident while working with her Ruler father left her crippled. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Poor, Family. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: This man has the majority of his body covered in plate. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. He is bald on top and has large auburn tufts of hair around his ears. His brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Human artifacts is his passion; and to protect his home

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Guardian, Adventurer. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 90 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This woman wears a violet feathered hat and violet clothes, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She has brown hair. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She hates Half-Elves with a passion. As such she is filled with self loathing. A fanatic, her devotion to her small selection of gods is unquestionable. She claims to be doing their will and will base all her actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the west. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Gnomish compassion.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears tattered old clothes. His white hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gray eyes.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Gifted from a young age, Odorr studied abroad. He married young, but lost his spouse to gnolls. He has worked as a Gardener like his father before him.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and revenge

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 3 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her sword with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She carries a battered hammer and tarnished sword as well. Her silver hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She thrives on attention. She does whatever is in her power to gain the attention of whomever she deems a fit date. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Yebe lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Ostracized due to the martial powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Gnomes became a terror of the countryside. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Yebe fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and to reunite with her absent father

Ideals: Fighting, Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 3000 cp. Amethyst (150 gp). Tourmaline (150 gp).

Description: She is dressed in an above average manner. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. She wears a top hat to cover her moderate length chestnut hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Insane, Depressed, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: With tan face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a red vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His blue leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his red boots flare out at the collars. He has done his best to style his silver hair to look like a famous performer. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: He was born at the edge of vast desert. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. He bought a dagger and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Expand his business; and to be a architect again

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Job. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 310 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: Her left side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears bulky tan painted plate armor. Her blonde hair is knotted and matted. She is baby faced.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Pyntle was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Her childhood dream was to be a Dilettante, but she was a colossal failure. Recently the stress of being a Architect has made it difficult for her to sleep.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Insomniac. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 250 gp. 1 Breastplate.