Description: She wears a blue tunic with violet highlights, and long red pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: Born in the north her family was never financially stable. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Laborer hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Family, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 10 pp. 1 Masterwork Artisan’s tools.

Description: She wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. She has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. She has shaved her head bald. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She does not care much for physical appearances, nor does she care much for other people. She does however care about what she wants and getting it. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: She was born in the north, but her parents moved at a very young age to the south. She moved out south to avoid the crime she committed. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

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.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: An older woman who wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during, she is not a threatening figure. Her blonde hair is long and unkept. Her gray eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She was granted psionic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and obtaining odd cultural gnomish artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Server

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This northern woman dresses in grey turtlenecks beneath a tan coat with pastel slacks. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She has slicked back silver hair. Her eyes are blue and beady.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: She was born in the north. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She wants to get laid; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 90 gp. 1 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He prefers to wear black pants and tee shirts. He wears a colorful flower in his red crest. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Revenge.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Lazy. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Barkeep

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

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep blue leather and dull grey iron scale mail. His hair is brown, silky, and of moderate length. He has a dull look in his violet eyes.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He takes great joy in being the best Baker in town.

History: A child with a great deal of singing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. Being a Baker 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: Seeks redemption; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Criminal record, In love. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: This slender man stands about 4'0". He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. His auburn hair, when down, is lengthy. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his brown eyes.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Tiefling companion (his 'brother'). He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Joker, Professionalism. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 400 sp. 1 Masterwork Light wooden shield.

Description: She is wearing a tight blue one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly greatswords and bows. Her hair is short and golden. Her hazel eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Bimpnottin isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Gnomish unity. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, she was no stranger to responsibility. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Blacksmith hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. Being a Blacksmith kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Seeks redemption.

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Criminal record, Slave, Religious, Poor. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 110 gp. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: 2'8" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep white leather and dull black iron scale mail. She wears her golden hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Eida isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Halfling unity. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way north. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 2000 cp.