Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a beer of some kind. He wears a tattered pair of loose tan pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs, marred by beers. His brown hair and beard is wavy and long. His amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has dedicated himself to building a better kind of golem.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is his passion.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 1800 sp.

Description: This northern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He has the majority of his body covered in plate. His hair is blonde and curly. His eyes are violet and beady.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Seebo fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Logical, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 210 gp.

Description: Her right side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears a violet broad hat and violet clothes. Her red hair is heavily combed to the right. Her hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Eloise isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Half-Elven unity. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. A freak accident while working with her Bather father left her crippled. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and nothing but the best is good enough for her

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Antagonistic, Insomniac. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 190 gp.

Description: He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. His black hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Jeweler. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His white hair is greasy and uncared for. His eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of brigands once and for all.

History: Alex hails from a village terrorized by brigands. In his 12th year, his parents were killed by a brigands raid, leaving Alex alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Many brigands want him driven away.

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: This slender man stands about 2'10". He wears a red shirt, with a white mid length shorts with white tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. He has a brown handlebar mustache and slicked back brown hair. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: He was raised in a plains tribe. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact.

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 60 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (6 gp).

Description: A pudgy man standing about 5'6" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears a brown tunic with tan highlights, and long red pants that bunch up around his shoes. He has done his best to style his white fur to look like a famous performer. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is a Crown-heir first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. 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. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Crown-heir work with an outfit from a few towns over. Crown-heir work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 190 gp.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His hair, while still mostly auburn, has prominent grey streaks. His ears are large.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his mother. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the east were limited. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 130 gp. Carnelian (40 gp).

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears bulky red painted plate armor. His hair is brown and curly. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines green.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of giants once and for all.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by giants, and he desires to right it; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: Just what you see.