Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears a worn and beaten armor. He has done his best to style his auburn hair to look like a famous performer. His gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

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. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered dancing. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep.

Ideals: Opinionated, Artistic. Flaws: Shy, Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: He has a missing right leg. He wears a blue vest and prefers white and black shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. He has wavy silver hair. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He has all his life been fascinated with painting.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. He has never given up on his painting dream.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and halfling compassion

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 100 sp. Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). 1 Masterwork manacles.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears red trousers with white and grey striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. Her hair is long and blonde with streaks of auburn, and is pulled back with small red clips. Her ears are large.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. 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. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, PTSD. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 290 gp.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Gnomes. His skin is dark but he possesses many grey ritualistic tattoos. He wears a blue deerstalker hat and blue clothes. He has a white handlebar mustache and slicked back white hair. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady amber eyes.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. 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: He was born at the edge of vast desert. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Opinionated, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 320 gp.

Description: She is an average looking eastern female in her early mid-life. She wears bulky tan painted plate armor. Her blonde hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a small hat. Her eyes are violet and beady.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. In her youth she was part of a gang. She got caught, but did not rat out her comrades and served her time in prison. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist, Shy. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears a worn and beaten armor. Her blue hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. She has a dull look in her gold eyes.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Damaia will drive conversation. She is obsessed with her god.

History: Damaia was raised in a hard working conservative environment. A gifted student she started as a Barber, but she got bored and became a Priest. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Gnomish people; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Religious, Job. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: He is a pot bellied western man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears skinny pants and wears a white and brown robe with the hood down. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his hazel eyes.

Personality: He is mildly Halfling supremacist, though he does not identify as such. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Halflings became a terror of the countryside. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To end his boredom.

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Racist, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 1000 cp. White pearl (40 gp). 3 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. Her golden hair is lengthy. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Athletic, Logical. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 3'7" when asserting himself. His red hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Kellen wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Sorcerer, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: The child of a Banker, who enjoyed hunting, Kellen was taken on many hunting expeditions. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He became a Dilettante soon after.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and expand his business

Ideals: Disciplined, Philantrophist. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 500 sp.