Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears a tight fitting tan shirt and pants. Her golden hair is lengthy. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Veloptima isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Gnomish unity. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. In her 17th 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 built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her.

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His eyes are a pleasant green.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Qualen was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. His childhood dream was to be a Stylist, but he was a colossal failure. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 7 years.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out.

Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Poor, Slave. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 160 gp. Red garnet (100 gp).

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She is dressed in an above average manner. With wild blonde hair. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. A fanatic, her devotion to her small selection of gods is unquestionable. She claims to be doing their will and will base all her actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: Kristryd was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. Like her mother and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Gardener. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 10 years.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Religious, Poor. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He sports a long red beard, and similarly colored long hair. His eyes are green and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Slave Trader business.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Slave Trader arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Slave Trader and was forced into it by his family.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Family. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This light-skinned male wears professional attire. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His black hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His eyes are likewise violet. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: A powerful wizard made him what he is. Before the accident, he was one of the most outspoken anti-Elven activists. He was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Elven doctor. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Elven people; and elven compassion

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Shy, Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: This slender woman stands about 5'9". She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She has wavy red hair. Her violet eyes peer out from beneath her small brown hat.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Her druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: She wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical, Gifted, Persistence. Flaws: Insane, Greedy. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This late middle aged man does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it and is in decent physical shape. He wears his chestnut hair down. His brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Jeweler born in the past three hundred years. He is a great chef.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his psionic talents. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Jeweler for the past few years.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and nothing but the best is good enough for him

Ideals: Gifted, Impeccable. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: Chrysoberyl (80 gp).

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. Her chestnut hair is braided into rings. She has a dull look in her blue eyes.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her music with anyone who is interested.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered music. She has never given up on her music dream.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Family, Mentor. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 190 gp. Eye agate (5 gp).

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She has slicked back silver hair. Her amber eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Sage business.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Her mother was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Persistence, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Disease. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 300 gp. 3 Tanglefoot bags.