Description: With white face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears silk and lounges about seductively. He wears a Stetson hat to hide his balding. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep copper.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Jade has worked very hard to control his curse. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Lazy, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: Bloodstone (70 gp).

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears a violet cloak and cross-gartered blue stockings. Her chestnut hair is well kept. Her eyes are likewise gray. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with dancing. She constantly tries to fill her life with dancing. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of goblins once and for all.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Jacoba was born on a far western mountains where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Shoemaker. She has never given up on her dancing dream.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 1 Average lock.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. Her auburn hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her eyes are a pleasant gray.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Kithri will drive conversation. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: Born in the north her family was never financially stable. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Priest. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Priest and was forced into it by her family; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Poor, Job, Family. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: This man stands a little under 6'3" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty brown coat over it. His black hair is still thick. He has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Merchant but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. He has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. He found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, he put together a working one.

Motivation: To pay off his debts; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Pacifist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 120 gp. Banded agate (10 gp).

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. She wears her black hair up. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. She also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Gnomes.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father 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. 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. Pyntle fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 70 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (4 gp).

Description: She wears a green costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on her torso, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 6'3" when asserting herself. Her green crest is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her red eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Burana is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A freak accident while working with her Tailor father left her crippled. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: Expand her business; and to be a tailor again

Flaws: Depressed, Secretive, Disease. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: Violet garnet (500 gp). Chalcedony (40 gp). Red garnet (50 gp).

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep tan leather and dull black iron scale mail. Her white hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: Born in the west to a Fisher, Nyx learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She tends to her Fisher job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He wears a brown feathered hat and brown clothes. His white hair is smooth and relatively long. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. A friendly and beautiful Human, he is rarely seen without a few beauties around his arms. Though a playboy in all rights, he is no lame duck.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. While he appears to be a normal Human, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Artistic, Logical. Flaws: Impulsive, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 140 gp. White pearl (100 gp).

Description: Standing 5'1", this man wears a brown tunic with grey highlights, and long tan pants that bunch up around his shoes. He keeps his long gray fur kept up in a rat tail. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Jade's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: Jade lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. 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. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 230 gp. Obsidian (15 gp). 1 Climber’s kit.