Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright blue and grey, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His white hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. He has gray eyes.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Stylist arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the east were limited. Some 6 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Pog never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love.

Flaws: Secretive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Mentor, Immigrant, In love. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 190 gp. Aquamarine (300 gp). Star rose quartz (60 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp).

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She is dressed in a clean tan cloak covering her clean studded leather. She wears her white hair down. She is baby faced.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Tana was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. In her 20th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature shield.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Flaws: Depressed, Insane, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 300 gp. Chrysoberyl (40 gp).

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His blonde hair is heavily combed to the left. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are blue.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 4'3" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears brown leather gloves, a brown jacket, and tight pants. Her white hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: Bolhild speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. She is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with her old comrades. She has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Bolhild grew up listening to her mother's many stories. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and obtaining odd cultural elven artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Impeccable, Entrepeneur, Optimist. Bonds: Adventurer, Slave. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 4000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly hand crossbows and bows. He keeps his green crest in a pixie cut. His gold eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. He also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Bonds: Criminal record, Attractive, Enemies, Rich, Job. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 40 pp. Tourmaline (50 gp).

Description: This malnourished woman wears baggy grey pantaloons and a white scarf. Her hair is short and golden. Her eyes are a pleasant blue.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insomniac. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: This late middle aged man wears a worn and beaten armor and is in decent physical shape. His hair is red and curly. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Jebeddo isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Gnomish unity. He disdains his fellow northerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 east. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 12000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This tall, slender man is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. His chestnut hair is heavily combed to the right. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his gray eyes.

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. Fabien is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: He was born in a small forest village. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 70 gp. 1 Backpack.

Description: An older woman who prefers to wear green clothing when she does not wear armor, she is not a threatening figure. She has wavy purple hair. 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 likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. She is a bit of a macho woman and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Passionate, Fighting. Flaws: Insomniac, Mundane. Bonds: Nature, Rich. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 9000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.