Description: She prefers to wear flannel. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. She is bald on top and has large golden tufts of hair around her ears. Her eyes are likewise violet.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. As she has aged she has sought to do reparations for her actions as a youth. She is also making sure that her compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. While she appears to be a normal Gnome, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

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.

Ideals: Justice, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She wears dull grey sweaters, loose blue pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed shield, just in case, and she perpetually has her shield ready. Her hair is short and chestnut. She has a dull look in her blue eyes.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Balifra isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Dwarven unity. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Balifra was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Balifra decided she wanted neither the life of her father nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. Being a Navigator 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: She has decided she is irredeemable; and 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

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 120 pp.

Description: With white face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His crest is gold and curly. He has a dull look in his red eyes.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. 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. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Tarhun fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He is content.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Mundane, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Slave, Military. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 110 gp. Jade (130 gp).

Description: This northern man is abnormally tall. He wears a black shirt with thin yellow vertical stripes and blue pants. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He has no hair. He has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. 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: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and money/treasure

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Half-Orcs. Her skin is light but she possesses many tan ritualistic tattoos. She likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and she is greedy

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 1000 cp. 1 Climber’s kit.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she usually wears her violet robe and has her bow always slung over her shoulder. Her moppish white hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She has dedicated herself to building a better kind of golem.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Philantrophist, Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 280 gp.

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing tan cape and mantle trimmed with soft black waves gently in the breeze. Her black hair is well kept. Her fierce brown eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. 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: She was born into a rich family. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she is greedy

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: White pearl (150 gp). Eye agate (5 gp).

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She is renowned for her bright red dresses and hats. Her hair is short and red. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She is an amazing painter.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. Her parents enrolled her in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that she could practice her divine talents. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Barkeep for the past few years.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and balancing her hectic life and new barkeep responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Insomniac. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 360 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Mayor. His brown hair is long and unkept. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He considers himself the perfect gentleman. He makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Gomory grew up listening to his father's many stories. Gomory was born on a far northern plains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Mayor. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Impeccable, Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 6000 cp. 1 Climber’s kit.