Description: She dresses like a well dressed Interpreter does. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her eyes are green and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Interpreter work with an outfit from a few towns over. Interpreter work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To be a Engraver again; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Job, Slave. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She is portly but not overly obese. With wild chestnut hair. Her eyes are likewise amber. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Ellywick isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Gnomish unity. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Ellywick was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. Being a Spy 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: Nothing but the best is good enough for her.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Mentor. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 50 pp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 5'7" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears a brown coat over a black low-cut shirt, and a deerstalker hat upon her head. She has white fur. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: Beast was born in the east. At a young age she loved to build and create. Beast 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. Beast decided she wanted neither the life of her mother 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. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Many gnolls want her driven away; and she is content

Ideals: Persistence, Philantrophist. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Server

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 70 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp).

Description: He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His hair is chestnut and curly. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the south. His mother was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Persistence, Impeccable. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: She wears long strands of jet and short brown dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her eyes are likewise amber.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: A powerful brothel owner made her what she is. Her parents were killed by giants in a raid when she was still a young child. The giants captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. After a long history of fighting, Kathra and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by giants, and she desires to right it; and someone believes her a fraud

Flaws: Antagonistic, Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Mentor, Enemies. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 120 pp.

Description: She wears a green top hat and green clothes, and carries shortbows. She wears her dark red hair up. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. 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 in the south. She dropped out of school to support her sick father, and resented it. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Naamah fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and to unite with her sister

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Bonds: Immigrant, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 100 gp. 4 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. He has styled his white hair well, parting it to the right. This silver eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Crown-heir business.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. Some 3 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Amnon never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Cynical, Mundane. Bonds: In love, Enemies. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 90 gp. Golden pearl (110 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). Jasper (60 gp).

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. She has moderate length blue crest. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Biri was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Like her father and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Stableman. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Stableman responsibilities is difficult; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Insane, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 60 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This slender man stands about 6'1". He is dressed in an above average manner. His crest is scarlet and very short. His half smiles and red eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his father. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 80 gp.