Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His Stetson hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His eyes are likewise silver. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: This man loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. He will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. He cares deeply for his spouse and does his best to make sure his guests look presentable.

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. Some 2 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Nirgel never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Artistic, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave, In love. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 2400 sp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Breastplate. 1 Banded mail.

Description: He is a husky man, who is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His chestnut hair has been sun bleached extensively. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Fisher. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and to settle down with his crush

Ideals: Pacifist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Religious. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: Jade (150 gp).

Description: This western woman wears tattered old clothes. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her black hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. On top of that she is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to her employer will always come first she doesn't like to hit women.

History: When she was but 4 years old her parents immigrated from the west. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Slave Trader hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is her passion.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears a fancy violet suit. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His red hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Through the years after Adran was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Adran's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Selfish, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This western woman wears a tan shirt, with a yellow mid length skirt with yellow tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She has wavy red hair. Her eyes are green.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing writing.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west.

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 230 gp. Golden yellow topaz (400 gp). Chrysoprase (80 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears light armors faded through time and improper care. He is an epitome of beauty. His black hair and beard is wavy and long. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are gray.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 140 gp. Cloth of gold vestments (130 gp). 1 Masterwork manacles.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned man, he wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is a Banker first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Ahvain is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Ahvain grew up listening to his mother's many stories. His homeland was ravaged by war and he spent much of his life rebuilding it. He tends to his Banker job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, PTSD. Bonds: Poor, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He sports a flattop hair cut. His eyes are brown and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when orcs swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Philantrophist. Bonds: Family, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 1 Breastplate.

Description: He wears a white collared shirt and green pants. He accessorizes with a brown scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt, and carries rapiers. He wears his golden hair up in a very large beehive style do. His amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: Bork was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He has achieved small success as a Engraver.

Motivation: He is content; and expand his business

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 600 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.