Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She tends to wear a black poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her chestnut hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. Her red eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Astaro was born on a far southern plains where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Assassin. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to giants demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and revenge

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 600 sp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: This younger middle-aged man prefers to wear grey pants and tee shirts, and a wedding ring on his left hand. He wears his auburn hair down. His hazel eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and retire the richest man in the south

Ideals: Passionate, Optimist. Bonds: In love, Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: She is an average looking eastern female in her early mid-life. She wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. Her green crest has been sun bleached extensively. Her half smiles and red eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes illithids are coming to abduct people. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: She was born into a rich family. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she wants revenge against illithids

Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Rich, Religious. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He dresses well, wearing blue shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. He sports a long black beard, and similarly colored long hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Fabien's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While he appears to be a normal Gnome, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world.

Ideals: Impeccable, Logical. Flaws: Insomniac, Insane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: This woman tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her white crest has been sun bleached extensively. Her red eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Bounty Hunter born in the past three hundred years. She has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: She was raised in a plains tribe. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She tends to her Bounty Hunter job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: To be a Fletcher again; and to reunite with her old friends

Flaws: Impulsive, Ugly. Bonds: Job, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 1 Half-Plate.

Description: She very much looks the part of a Mercenary. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. She has styled her chestnut hair well, parting it to the left. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. She worked as a nervous Mercenary and found it very stressful. She has worked as a Mercenary like her mother before her.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 290 gp.

Description: She is dressed in a clean brown cloak covering her clean studded leather. She is bald on top and has large chestnut tufts of hair around her ears. She has gleaming, smiling violet eyes.

Personality: She is a hateful person. She taunts others and blames them for her problems. The war was a terrible time for her, and Riswynn does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life; and she's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Slave. Occupation: Server

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He prefers to wear flannel. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His silver hair is singed and shortened. His blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Gnomes.

History: Seebo hails from a village terrorized by goblins. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: A deep hatred of goblins; and half-elven compassion

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Racist. Bonds: Slave, Enemies. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 60 gp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (300 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: 6'5" and muscular, this eastern woman wears a worn and beaten armor. Her brass crest is drawn into a tight pony tail with a rose scrunchie. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. A fanatic, her devotion to her small selection of gods is unquestionable. She claims to be doing their will and will base all her actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Being born in the east, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the east for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way north. She was granted psionic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Family. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 60 gp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (140 gp).