Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears tattered old clothes. Her white hair is thinning but still full. She is baby faced.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She refers to her adoptive father 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: When she was but 5 years old her parents immigrated from the west. Avice liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: The dark-skinned woman stands 4'0" and is wearing a long, brown cloak. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. She cares deeply for her spouse and does her best to make sure her guests look presentable.

History: Liftrasa was born with her father's beautiful face. 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 used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: To pay off her debts; and she made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it

Ideals: Gifted, Optimist, Philantrophist. Bonds: In love, Attractive, Debt. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 160 gp. Silver pearl (130 gp).

Description: This eastern woman is abnormally tall. She wears a grey cloak and cross-gartered tan stockings. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. With wild auburn hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. 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: She was born in the east, but her parents moved at a very young age to the west. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered painting. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 130 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This light-skinned male dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His chestnut hair has been sun bleached extensively. His amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. He was taken from his home at a very young age. Being a Gardener kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

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; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Slave, Criminal record. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 120 gp. Banded agate (11 gp).

Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He wears a brown cloak and cross-gartered white stockings. His hair is cut close to his head. His skin is flawless and his brown eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: William was born with his father's beautiful face. William was orphaned to a temple shortly after his birth. He was raised by the temple staff to care always for others above himself and to hold his god always in his heart. After a long history of fighting, William and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Gifted, Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He keeps his white hair in a flapper bob. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and many goblins want him driven away

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insane, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 80 gp. 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: Her right side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her sword with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her golden hair is braided into rings. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: Thea lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Persistence, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 5000 cp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (170 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is a pot bellied eastern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. He has a long blonde beard with little hanging trinkets. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Gnomes.

History: Eberdeb was born with his father's beautiful face. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Adventurer, Attractive, Guardian. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a blue tunic with tan highlights, and long black pants that bunch up around his shoes. His long chestnut hair reaches down to his waist. His blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. 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: Born in the north to a Banker, Vanuath learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He became a Banker soon after.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Job, Slave. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 40 gp. Solid gold idol (300 gp). 1 Chain shirt.