Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His black hair is braided into rings. He has a dull look in his blue eyes.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. 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, Gomory is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. A serious injury left his father unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm father. He was granted martial powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: Expand his business; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Debt, Job. Occupation: Interpreter

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

Possessions: 700 gp. Smoky quartz (40 gp). Emerald (800 gp). Onyx (40 gp). Black pearl (200 gp).

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 5'6" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears a brown cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. She has dyed her greying brown hair a little too much giving a sharp brown color. Her ears are large.

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 uses divination through singing.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. She tends to her Gardener job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and expand her business

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 5000 sp. Rose (50 gp). Golden pearl (160 gp).

Description: This dark-skinned male wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a green coat. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His silver hair is greasy and uncared for. His blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Architect arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Gerard grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Gerard. Some 4 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Gerard never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich, In love. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 200 gp. Sardonyx (20 gp).

Description: This light-skinned female wears a fancy black dress. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her red hair is smooth and relatively long. Her eyes are likewise gray. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Sarah will drive conversation. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Sarah is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was born in the south. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: Many gnolls want her driven away; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Extrovert, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 3000 sp.