Description: This slender man stands about 5'1". He wears a pastel tunic with brown highlights, and long grey pants that bunch up around his shoes. His wide-brimmed hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines yellow.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He has worked as a Soapmaker like his father before him.

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; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Lazy. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 500 sp. 1 Simple lock. 1 Good lock.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty white coat over it. His silver hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is mildly Halfling supremacist, though he does not identify as such. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Gnomish people; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Racist, Forgetful. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 390 gp.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears a blue collared shirt and brown skirt. She accessorizes with a blue scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. Her hair is blonde and curly. She has a dull look in her green eyes.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: Antinua was raised in a hard working conservative environment. A gifted student she started as a Jeweler, but she got bored and became a Weaver. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Optimist, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 50 gp. Rock crystal (40 gp).

Description: This fat northern woman has a bulbous nose and is wearing a long, tan, dusty cloak. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. She has a long blonde ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Painter hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Military, Poor. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 50 gp. White pearl (50 gp).

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized red coat. He wears his black hair up in a very large beehive style do. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: Roge was born with his father's beautiful face. 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. He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: He's attracted to the PC.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 2000 cp. Azurite (14 gp). 1 Backpack.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 5'10" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears brown leather gloves, a brown jacket, and tight pants. Her fur is cut close to her head. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Human culture. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of giants once and for all.

History: Born in the south to a Engraver, Gale learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Engraver. She has recently attracted an admirer that believes she's playing hard to get.

Motivation: To end her boredom; and balancing her hectic life and new engraver responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Racist, Mundane. Bonds: Enemies, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Human, and stands approximately 5'10". He wears a brown cloak and cross-gartered black stockings, and his gloved hand is found clutching a halberd. His hair is auburn and curly. He has a dull look in his amber eyes.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. He is afraid of men and trembles around them

History: Theodoric was raised in a hard working conservative environment. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered east to less war torn lands. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He wants revenge against drow; and to be a body guard again

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Shy, PTSD. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 3100 sp. Sard (50 gp).

Description: He wears tattered old clothes. He carries with him a set of ceremonial daggers on his belt, each one with a jet on the hilt. His hair is short and brown. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: He was born in a small forest village. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and to pay off his debts

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 3000 cp. 1 Good lock.

Description: 6'5" and muscular, this eastern woman is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. She has red crest. Her fierce gold eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when drow swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud.

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 90 gp.