Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized violet coat. Her head has been shaved. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: This woman loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. She has never given up on her writing dream.

Motivation: To unite with her brother; and retire the richest woman in the west

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: Aquamarine (400 gp).

Description: He prefers to wear flannel. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He has a very tight haircut. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Gnome in existence. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: He was raised in a desert tribe. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his necromantic talents. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and obtaining odd cultural gnomish artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Justice, Gifted, Fighting. Bonds: Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 160 gp. Chrysoprase (70 gp). Amber (130 gp).

Description: He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. He is physically well-built. His silver hair is lengthy. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Gifted from a young age, Reirak studied abroad. Before the accident, he was one of the most outspoken anti-Dragonborn activists. He was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Dragonborn doctor. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: Revenge; and obtaining odd cultural dragonborn artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Racist, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a simple black robe with tan stripes complete with hood. His hair is cut close to his head. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are hazel.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and obtaining odd cultural half-orc artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Slave, Criminal record. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 2000 cp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: She is an average looking northern female in her early mid-life. She is renowned for her bright black dresses and hats. Her dark red hair is thinning but still full. Her black eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Navigator. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 9 years.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Passionate, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 300 sp. Tourmaline (70 gp).

Description: He wears baggy white pantaloons and a brown scarf. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He has a dull look in his violet eyes.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. 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 in the east. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: This northern woman wears tattered old clothes. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She has a very tight haircut. Her brown eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Spice Merchant profession.

History: She was born in the north, but her parents moved at a very young age to the west. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Ruler hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Ruler responsibilities is difficult; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 1000 sp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears blue trousers with red and green striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. Her deerstalker hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her amber eyes peer out from beneath her deerstalker blue hat.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. As she has aged she has sought to do reparations for her actions as a youth. She is also making sure that her compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. Being a Bookbinder kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Optimist, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: This northern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty black coat over it. He keeps his blonde hair in a pixie cut. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

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. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He is content; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Mundane. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 40 pp.