Description: He stands about 3'5" and wears bulky blue painted plate armor. His right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His hair is black and curly. He has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the west. Qualen was born on a far western forest where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Sculptor. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Lazy. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 30 pp. Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp).

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His silver hair, when down, is lengthy. His white eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Miner. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. He worked as a nervous Miner and found it very stressful. 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: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and obtaining odd cultural gnomish artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 160 pp.

Description: This eastern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears a tan tunic with grey highlights, and long tan pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her white hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She has achieved small success as a Servant.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and expand her business

Ideals: Professionalism, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Fearful. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. His hair, while still mostly golden, has prominent grey streaks. His eyes are likewise hazel. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He uses divination through singing.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He was granted divine powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 1200 sp.

Description: He is wearing a tight tan one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly shortspears and shortbows. He has shaved his head bald. His skin is flawless and his gray eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He hates giants. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He moved out north to avoid the crime he committed. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Bonds: Criminal record, Attractive, Enemies, Religious, Nature. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 1700 sp. 1 Superior lock.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, she wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. Her chestnut hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her eyes are hazel.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her painting with anyone who is interested.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. She found a children's book about a Human 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 been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother.

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Job, Family, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: She stands about 6'3" and is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing green cape and mantle trimmed with soft black waves gently in the breeze. Her right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her red eyes.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. A friendly and beautiful Tiefling, she is rarely seen without a few beauties around her arms. Though a playboy in all rights, she is no lame duck.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Cartwright arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls.

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He keeps his blonde hair in a flapper bob. His hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. He advanced relatively quickly due to his good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Unemployed. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and he's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Poor, Slave, Has a crush, Military. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (400 gp).

Description: He typically wears green cloth garments or leather armor. He wears a feathered hat to cover his moderate length silver hair. His eyes are white and catlike.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. He is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his father's willingness to do anything to win. He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor, Slave. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: Just what you see.