Description: She is a pot bellied western woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. Her gold crest is braided into rings. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Like her mother and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Interpreter. She struck the Interpreter job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: To be a Shoemaker again; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears baggy blue pantaloons and a tan scarf. Her brown hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Gnomes.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Elven people; and retire the richest woman in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Racist. Bonds: Poor, Slave. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 350 gp.

Description: This woman wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her hair is chestnut and curly. Her hazel eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation she is generally quite perceptive. She notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered poetry. She has worked as a Fortune-teller like her father before her.

Motivation: To be a Bookbinder again.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Military, Job. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 100 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She prefers to wear tan clothing when she does not wear armor. She keeps her chestnut hair in a pixie cut. This gray eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Map Maker arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end; and expand her business

Ideals: Philantrophist, Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 80 gp. Eye agate (16 gp).

Description: He is wearing a long, blue, dusty cloak. He is portly but not overly obese. His black hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 110 gp. Moss agate (13 gp).

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. She has styled her brown hair well, parting it to the right. Her silver eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. 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. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Addict, Hedonist. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: He stands about 5'6" and wears dark leathers with embroidery. His right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His hair is blonde, silky, and of moderate length. He has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: Shane wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Sorcerer, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. A freak accident while working with his Healer mother left him crippled. In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 80 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a beer of some kind. She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane, marred by beers. Her auburn hair is wavy and long. She wears a mask on her face.

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. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage son.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. The family's rival house kidnapped her sister with the intent that her sister marry their son to gain control of contested properties. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister; and she has a crush on the local bounty hunter

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Family, Has a crush. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: He wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with black colored cloaks and clothing. His hair is silver and curly. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep white.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. He found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, he put together a working one.

Motivation: He's in love; and 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: Joker, Persistence. Bonds: Criminal record, Mentor, Has a crush. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 100 gp.