Description: Standing 6'2", this man wears a tight fitting green shirt and pants. His scarlet crest is drawn into a tight pony tail with a cross scrunchie. His half smiles and red eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

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 a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Direcris grew up listening to his mother's many stories. Through the years after Direcris was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Direcris's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He has achieved small success as a Stableman.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: She is a pot bellied western woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears a blue tunic with brown highlights, and long green pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. This hazel eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is a Marshal first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. 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 grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Job, In love, Family. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 380 gp.

Description: This light-skinned male is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. He has shaved his head bald. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing music.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when orcs swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to orcs demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Many orcs want him driven away.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 1400 sp.

Description: She is lean but muscular and is typically in her Navigator uniform. Her golden hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Gnomes.

History: Born in the north her family was never financially stable. Her family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. She saw this and took pride in her father's willingness to do anything to win. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

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

Flaws: Shy, Racist. Bonds: Job, Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 60 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp).

Description: Her skin is bronze and flawless. She wears a white shirt with thin green vertical stripes and brown pants. She is an epitome of beauty. She has styled her golden hair well, parting it to the left. She has amber eyes.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of orcs once and for all.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Kansif has worked very hard to control her curse. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to orcs demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and she desires to right it; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Passionate, Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She stands about 6'4" and wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. She has silver hair. Her eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Gynk will drive conversation. She constantly seizes attention wherever she goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. She likes to think of herself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to giants demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and she doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes

Ideals: Extrovert, Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. Her dark red hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a small hat. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. Purah liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Military, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Mortician

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

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She is well dressed, constantly wearing a green suit, black shirt, and green tie. Her crest is rusty, silky, and of moderate length. She has red eyes and a green hat with a black feather.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Cook born in the past three hundred years. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: Vezera was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and obtaining odd cultural elven artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears a brown collared shirt and white pants. He accessorizes with a black scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His blonde hair is singed and shortened. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Merchant and was forced into it by his family; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Military. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 3000 cp. Jasper (20 gp).