Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her monstrous two handed axe with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She has wavy black hair. She is baby faced.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation she is generally quite perceptive. She notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. She takes great joy in being the best Shipwright in town.

History: Born in the west to a Shipwright, Siffress learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. Her father took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found.

Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Nature, Family. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: This late middle aged woman wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a pastel coat and is in decent physical shape. Her beige fur is heavily combed to the right. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are green.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Layabout who has hired her part-time. She is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Spring grew up listening to her father's many stories. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and she would like to get married and retire

Bonds: Has a crush, In love, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 400 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Orla hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 1400 sp. Red-brown spinel (40 gp). Lapis lazuli (4 gp). Pink pearl (40 gp). 1 Disguise kit.

Description: He wears tattered old clothes. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His silver hair and beard is wavy and long. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. 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, Umpen is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Umpen was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Wants a kiss.

Ideals: Joker, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He has a large blue mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his tan robe. His hair is long and black with streaks of brown, and is pulled back with small blue clips. His beard is brown, braided, and well cared for. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: A child with a great deal of singing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. A freak accident while working with his Body Guard mother left him crippled. He has never given up on his singing dream.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Justice, Artistic. Flaws: Hedonist, Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 700 sp. Red-brown spinel (130 gp).

Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He carries a battered glaive and tarnished shortspear as well. His golden hair is still thick. This gray eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. His first spouse was a Bellfounder, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism. Flaws: Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Gnome, and stands approximately 3'2". She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down, and her gloved hand is found clutching a sword. Her brown hair is well kept. Her eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. When Tippletoe reached her early adolescence her Gnome father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature sword.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Military, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 3200 sp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. Her silver hair has been sun bleached extensively. She has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Buvvie isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Gnomish unity. 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: When she was but 7 years old her parents immigrated from the west. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered painting. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and she is greedy

Ideals: Impeccable, Artistic. Bonds: Rich, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. Her black hair is well kept. Her blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Performer born in the past three hundred years. She does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. She worked as a nervous Performer and found it very stressful. She's also a talented Locksmith, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and expand her business

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Mentor. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 2000 cp.