Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He has dyed his greying golden hair a little too much giving a sharp golden color. His violet eyes peer out from beneath his deerstalker red hat.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Ulblyn was born in the east. At a young age he loved to build and create. He always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Disciplined, Gifted, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 60 gp. Sard (20 gp).

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized tan coat. With a patchy silver beard and wild silver hair. This amber eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Nutae was born with his mother's beautiful face. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs.

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 150 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (8 gp).

Description: She is an average looking western female in her early mid-life. She wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: Dagnal was born the youngest of three triplets. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Dwarven companion (her 'brother'). She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and obtaining odd cultural dwarven artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Passionate, Optimist. Bonds: Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she prefers to wear tan clothing when she does not wear armor. Her white hair is knotted and matted. She has a dull look in her green eyes.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Gnomes.

History: She got into the Body Guard business at a young age. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Tiefling compassion; and nothing but the best is good enough for her

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic, Racist. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 20 pp. Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Iolite (50 gp). Malachite (8 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears skinny pants and wears a violet and grey robe with the hood down. Her silver hair is unkempt and raggedy. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: Faral lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Spy they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Crown-heir, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Family, Religious. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This eastern man is abnormally tall. He wears a violet collared shirt and tan pants. He accessorizes with a grey scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His golden hair and beard is wavy and long. His blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: Naal lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Half-Elves in the east were limited. He struck the Guard job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Flaws: Disease, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Family. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 3100 sp.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. Her hair is auburn and curly. Her hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. The war was a terrible time for her, and Griselda does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Griselda grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Griselda. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Military, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: She wears a worn and beaten armor. She keeps her rusty crest in a flapper bob. Her gold eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. 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: Pogranix was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 1200 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He has no fur. His blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He has dedicated himself to building a better village for his children.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Justice, Joker, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Carter

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: Brown-green garnet (140 gp).