Description: He wears a simple black robe with tan stripes complete with hood. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His red hair is greasy and uncared for. His fierce blue eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: This man loves singing and to teach people singing more than just about anything. He is a great chef.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 100 pp. Solid gold idol (1100 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Gnomish culture. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is his passion; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insomniac, Racist. Bonds: Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 160 gp. Carved bone or ivory statuette (30 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. His black hair is cut short. His violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. 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, Lance is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Lance grew up listening to his mother's many stories. A gifted student he started as a Soapmaker, but he got bored and became a Barrister. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He has a dull look in his amber eyes.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Qualen 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 Qualen. Being a Layabout 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 is a bit of a kleptomaniac.

Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 10000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.