Description: With brown face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. He has dyed his greying brown fur a little too much giving a sharp brown color. His eyes are blue and beady.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Gnomish culture. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Mason. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Gnomish compassion; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 1600 sp.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears just a green suit. His black crest is still thick. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gold eyes.

Personality: He hates giants. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: He was born at the edge of vast desert. Direcris abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to giants demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by giants, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 4000 cp. Tourmaline (100 gp).

Description: She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. Her rusty crest, when down, is lengthy. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She thrives on attention. She does whatever is in her power to gain the attention of whomever she deems a fit date. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: She was born into a rich family. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. When she grew older, she became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. She began work as a mercenary for hire. She would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and an old rival family wants her found

Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Family, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 50 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is typically in his Mason uniform. He carries with him a set of shortbows on his belt, each one with a ruby on the hilt. His blonde hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His eyes are a pleasant blue.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Patrick was born the youngest of three triplets. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Mason. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Patrick fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Mason responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Selfish. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 100 sp. Jade (100 gp).

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. She has slicked back blonde hair. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Bounty Hunter arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She found a children's book about a Gnome Sorcerer who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a beer of some kind. He is wearing a long, grey, dusty cloak, marred by beers. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He takes great joy in being the best Dyer in town.

History: The child of a Fisher, who enjoyed hunting, Lewis was taken on many hunting expeditions. After coming to the age of reason, Lewis took it upon himself to study the arcane arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He struck the Dyer job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and to protect his home

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Guardian, Job, Nature. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 600 sp. 2 Antitoxin.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a white vest and prefers tan and black shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His auburn hair is long and unkept. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: Ûggû speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. 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: Born to a pair of adventurers, Ûggû grew up listening to his father's many stories. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He's also a talented Bounty Hunter, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Many orcs want him driven away; and nothing but the best is good enough for him

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Carter

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 500 sp. 1 Good lock.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy golden stubble. She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty yellow coat over it. She has a hunchback. Her golden hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her eyes are likewise green. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She has dedicated herself to building a better world.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero.

Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Adventurer, Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 700 sp. Onyx (20 gp).

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her gray fur is knotted and matted. She has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She has all her life been fascinated with dancing.

History: Fragrant was born the youngest of three triplets. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Rich, Job, Family, Slave. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 40 gp.