Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she is dressed in earthy colors with a tan and brown handkerchief worn on her left side. Her red hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. She has gray eyes and a tan hat with a brown feather.

Personality: She hates Gnomes with a passion. As such she is filled with self loathing. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: Veloptima was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Flaws: Racist, Addict. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Slave. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 140 gp. Tourmaline (140 gp).

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears a grey shirt with thin brown vertical stripes and tan pants. Her white hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. Her green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Born to a Baker, her father struggled to pay the bills. After coming to the age of reason, Emmeline took it upon herself to study the divine arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: To unite with her brother; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Family. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (120 gp).

Description: She wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. She is physically well-built. She wears a colorful flower in her red hair. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Elven people; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic, Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 7000 cp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: With tan face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears skinny pants and wears a violet and green robe with the hood down. She sports red long hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic woman, Joan's first love is herself. Her second love is also herself. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. After coming to the age of reason, Joan took it upon herself to study the arcane arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes.

Ideals: Impeccable, Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Disease. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 1000 cp. Deep green spinel (100 gp).

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He tends to wear a green poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His hair, while still mostly purple, has prominent grey streaks. His skin is flawless and his red eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. On top of that he is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to his employer will always come first he doesn't like to hit women.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Fletcher. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is his passion; and he wants to get laid

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 380 gp. 1 Masterwork Thieves’ tools.

Description: She is in excellent shape and wears just a tan suit. She has done her best to style her blonde hair to look like a famous performer. Her eyes are green and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered poetry. She has never given up on her poetry dream.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac.

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 70 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a blue armored body suit, with a simple brown line shooting up and back down, and is pretty ugly. His hair is white and curly. His amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the south. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the south were limited. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and many dire rats want him driven away

Flaws: Ugly, Emotional, Selfish. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Iolite (80 gp). 1 Breastplate.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman likes to wear yellow tank tops with black skirt, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her eyes are likewise violet. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. 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: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Butcher work with an outfit from a few towns over. Butcher work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She was granted divine powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Butcher and was forced into it by her family; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: In love, Job, Family. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: He wears bulky black painted plate armor. He is portly but not overly obese. His brown hair is smooth and relatively long. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 29. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Born to a Armorer, his mother struggled to pay the bills. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Ruler. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and to unite with his brother

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Poor, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 1500 sp. 1 Disguise kit.