Description: He wears a tan cloak and cross-gartered red stockings, and he perpetually has his hand crossbow ready. He has wavy chestnut hair. He has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Elven conditions. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Religious, Family. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Star rose quartz (30 gp). Moss agate (6 gp). Sard (30 gp). 1 Everburning torch. 3 Smokesticks. 3 Antitoxin.

Description: He wears a brown coat over a black low-cut shirt, and a top hat upon his head. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His hair is short and silver. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady hazel eyes.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Odo fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Passionate, Professionalism, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She is a pot bellied northern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears an entirely yellow suit with blue socks and a vest with buckled shoes. She has styled her silver hair well, parting it to the left. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. 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: The child of a Bowyer, who enjoyed hunting, Andraste was taken on many hunting expeditions. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. After a long history of fighting, Andraste and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He has dyed his greying chestnut hair a little too much giving a sharp chestnut color. This amber eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He uses divination through singing.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father 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 now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He is content; and retire the richest man in the east

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Opinionated, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 600 sp. Hematite (11 gp).

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He is typically in his Performer uniform. His yellow fur is singed and shortened. His fierce green eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: Born in the south to a Performer, Sun learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Performer for the past few years.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Cynical, Secretive. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears blue trousers with black and yellow striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. His hair is cut close to his head. His brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He does not care much for physical appearances, nor does he care much for other people. He does however care about what he wants and getting it. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Gnomes.

History: He was raised in a plains tribe. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered singing. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Half-Elven compassion.

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 260 gp.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty black coat over it. Her gold crest is knotted and matted. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: When she was but 7 years old her parents immigrated from the west. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She struck the Weaver job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and expand her business

Ideals: Athletic, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 300 sp. Rhodochrosite (12 gp).

Description: This fat northern woman has a bulbous nose and wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. With wild chestnut hair. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Bendoo was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Bendoo has worked very hard to control her curse. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it

Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist, Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Guard

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 40 gp. Alexandrite (300 gp).

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. She wears professional attire. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her brown hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: While she is on the job, she is grim and serious. She understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. 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 was born at the edge of vast plains. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 3000 cp. Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.