Description: He stands about 5'7" and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. He has done his best to style his black hair to look like a famous performer. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his father's willingness to do anything to win. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 90 gp. Sard (40 gp).

Description: Her skin is bronze and flawless. She wears a simple tan robe with grey stripes complete with hood. She is an epitome of beauty. Her white hair is knotted and matted. Her violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Bookbinder born in the past three hundred years. The war was a terrible time for her, and Shamil does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: Shamil was raised in a hard working conservative environment. When Shamil reached her early adolescence her Gnome father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Flaws: Disease, Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Military. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 4000 cp. Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (30 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (50 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He has the majority of his body covered in plate. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. He has wavy black hair. His eyes are brown and beady.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. Through the years after Immeral was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Immeral's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Immeral fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Antagonistic. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: She wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. She keeps her long copper crest kept up in a rat tail. Her gold eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: She was born into a rich family. A freak accident while working with her Laborer mother left her crippled. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends.

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Server

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 17000 cp.

Description: She wears blue leather gloves, a blue jacket, and tight pants, and carries monstrous two handed axes. Her brown hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. Her eyes are likewise gray. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. 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. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He 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. His golden hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His eyes are a pleasant hazel.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Anverth embodies much of what other species detest in the Gnomes. The war was a terrible time for him, and Anverth does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

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. 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 was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is his passion

Flaws: Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Adventurer, Military, Attractive. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: Her left side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright pastel and brown, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. She has wavy white fur. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. 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: She was born at the edge of vast mountains. Her first spouse was a Barrister, they had one daughter, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Pacifist, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Family. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 400 sp. Carnelian (80 gp).

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 6'6" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She has a large black mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her red robe. She has no crest. Her eyes are likewise gold.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: A powerful brothel owner made her what she is. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 east. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers; and to reunite with her absent father

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Mentor, Family. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: An older man who dresses well, wearing yellow shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time, he is not a threatening figure. His hair is golden and curly. His eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes orcs are coming to abduct people. 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: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. He advanced relatively quickly due to his good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. He leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever he goes.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Rich, Military. Occupation: Dilettante

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

Possessions: 1000 cp.