Description: He wears silk and lounges about seductively. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His bronze crest is lengthy. His eyes are gold.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: Born in the west his family was never financially stable. A serious injury left his mother unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm mother. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle.

Flaws: Depressed, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Debt. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 140 gp. Malachite (8 gp).

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He wears a broad hat to cover his moderate length auburn hair. His violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Calcitro was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Marshal.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and obtaining odd cultural gnomish artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 1100 sp.

Description: He is well dressed, constantly wearing a white suit, brown shirt, and white tie. His brown hair is cut short. This amber eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Ruler business.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence, Justice. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 1 Breastplate.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears dull tan sweaters, loose grey pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed shortspear, just in case. She has moderate length black hair. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. 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: Born to a pair of adventurers, Sariel grew up listening to her mother's many stories. Her mother worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled mother and took her mother's old job. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: She wants to get laid; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Family, Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. She has chestnut hair. Her eyes are likewise hazel.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. Faral enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Born in the north to a Ruler, Faral learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Ruler for hire.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Shy, Hedonist. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: An older woman who prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady, she is not a threatening figure. She wears a Stetson hat to hide her balding. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are hazel.

Personality: She is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, she's a very lovable idiot. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her music with anyone who is interested.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Her first spouse was a Cook, they had one daughter, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She was granted divine powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 1 Banded mail.

Description: This slender woman stands about 3'3". She wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. Her chestnut hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To protect her home; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Guardian, Religious, Nature. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 1700 sp.

Description: He wears a tattered pair of loose pastel pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. He is portly but not overly obese. He has styled his orange fur well, parting it to the left. His hazel eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. A true patriot, Cask would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: He got into the Healer business at a young age. Through the years after Cask was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Cask's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 11 years.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Military, Job. Occupation: Healer

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 20 gp. Freshwater pearl (10 gp).

Description: This southern woman is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her blonde hair is still thick. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep violet.

Personality: She thrives on attention. She does whatever is in her power to gain the attention of whomever she deems a fit date. She has all her life been fascinated with singing.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Numba was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the south were limited. She has never given up on her singing dream.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day.

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 220 gp.