Description: She is well dressed, constantly wearing a blue suit, green shirt, and yellow tie. Her blonde hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. She has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Meena was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. 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 knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Impulsive, Insane. Bonds: Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 220 gp.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears dull green sweaters, loose red pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed falchion, just in case. Her crest is cut close to her head. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her red eyes.

Personality: She is a hateful person. She taunts others and blames them for her problems. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Zykroff grew up listening to her mother's many stories. In her 20th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent mother; and she's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears a black vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His grey leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his black boots flare out at the collars. He has blue crest. He has gleaming, smiling gold eyes.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. 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: Fax was born in the east. At a young age he loved to build and create. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and retire the richest man in the east

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. His auburn hair is still thick. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Engraver profession.

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. His divine abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He has worked as a Weaver like his mother before him.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and he is content

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Military. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 400 gp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (300 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: 5'5" and muscular, this eastern man wears a white top hat and white clothes. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy blonde hair. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. After coming to the age of reason, Gûnd took it upon himself to study the psionic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears a brown vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His green leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his brown boots flare out at the collars. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His hair, while still mostly white, has prominent grey streaks. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Dwarven conditions. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Elven compassion; and he loathes his own lifestyle

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Insane, Racist. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 6000 cp. 1 Silk rope.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a white costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on his torso. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

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.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 30 pp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (170 gp). 2 Thunderstones.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 4'0" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She dresses in grey turtlenecks beneath a violet coat with blue slacks. Her brown hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Through the years after Liftrasa was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Liftrasa's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Barber for the past few years.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end; and she's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Opinionated, Joker. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 170 gp. Eye agate (9 gp). Alexandrite (300 gp). Rose (20 gp).

Description: He dresses like a well dressed Painter does. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. Sporting a golden mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his dancing with anyone who is interested.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Lamlis was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Expand his business; and to be a sage again

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Job, Family, Mentor. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: Just what you see.