Description: This woman is very fat, and wears skinny pants and wears a brown and tan robe with the hood down. Her golden hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her fierce green eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Merchant profession.

History: Matilda hails from a village terrorized by giants. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Many giants want her driven away; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Servant

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He is dressed in a clean blue cloak covering his clean studded leather. He wears his chestnut hair up. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Ostracized due to the martial powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Gnomes became a terror of the countryside. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by dire rats. Erky was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This northern woman is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She has dyed her greying black crest a little too much giving a sharp black color. Her gold eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Havilar is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was born in the north, but her parents moved at a very young age to the east. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is her passion.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: She is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior, and she perpetually has her rapier ready. She has done her best to style her scarlet crest to look like a famous performer. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her painting with anyone who is interested.

History: Zykroff hails from a village terrorized by illithids. When the war came and ruined her parents she was left adrift. She was a hard woman then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Zykroff fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it; and doesn't want to be a beggar and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Family, Enemies. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He tends to wear a pastel poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'10" when asserting himself. His orange fur is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Windy was born into a poor family. Growing up, he dreamt of becoming a Sorcerer, to bring honor to his family’s name. When he came of age, he applied for a position with his town's local guard, looking to work his way up via merit and eventually become a Sorcerer in service of a powerful lord somewhere. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and he loathes his own lifestyle

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Religious, Adventurer, Poor, Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: She is in excellent shape and dresses like a well dressed Bounty Hunter does. She keeps her red hair in a pixie cut. Her eyes are brown.

Personality: She is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, she's a very lovable idiot. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Elves.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 160 gp. Smoky quartz (50 gp).

Description: This late middle aged man is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times and is in decent physical shape. His silver hair is smooth and relatively long. His brown eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered poetry. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Glassblower for hire.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 60 pp.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized yellow coat. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her black hair is lengthy. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: She was born in the east. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

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

Ideals: Justice, Philantrophist. Bonds: Slave, Immigrant. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He tends to wear a large blue jacket. His long blonde hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Miner. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Oppleby grew up listening to his father's many stories. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Oppleby has worked very hard to control his curse. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 240 gp.