Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Gnomes. Her skin is dark but she possesses many white ritualistic tattoos. She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty blue coat over it. She has white hair. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Brewer arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Disciplined, Logical, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: She wears a blue shirt with thin brown vertical stripes and violet pants. She is physically well-built. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her singing with anyone who is interested.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She has never given up on her singing dream.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insane, Shy. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: Standing 6'8", this man does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His crest is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His eyes are likewise gold. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with singing. He constantly tries to fill his life with singing. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the south. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the plains to a summer home near a ruined castle. He would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the plains due to the painful memories there. Sethrekar took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up crossbow and armor he uses now. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and he is greedy

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 2500 sp. Silver comb with moonstones (400 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (140 gp).

Description: He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His silver hair is knotted and matted. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Thervan hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his singing career. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. He has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and he is greedy

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature, Rich, Guardian. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 150 gp. Pink pearl (120 gp).

Description: With green face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep green leather and dull white iron scale mail. His red hair is long and unkept. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are gold.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Valafar lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His father worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled father and took his father's old job. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 40 gp. Carnelian (30 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: Her right side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears just a green suit. Her gold crest is drawn into a tight pony tail with a skull scrunchie. She is baby faced.

Personality: Kadana speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. She is ready at a moment's notice to give into her darker urges. She is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. She often ends up burning people alive in the fires she starts.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

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.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Disease. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 40 gp. Coral (70 gp).

Description: This woman stands a little under 6'8" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She wears long strands of emerald and short black dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. Her green crest is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. She has gleaming, smiling gold eyes.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation she is generally quite perceptive. She notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. 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: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to her current location. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero.

Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: 5'1" and muscular, this northern man dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His hair is long and red with streaks of black, and is pulled back with small tan clips. His beard is black, braided, and well cared for. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Laborer born in the past three hundred years. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. Being a Laborer kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears a white vest and prefers brown and yellow shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. She wears her blonde hair down. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Justice, Entrepeneur, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 5000 cp.