Description: He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His white crest is heavily combed to the right. His red eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Spice Merchant for the past few years.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Disease, Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Job, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: Red garnet (80 gp). Hematite (14 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This southern man is abnormally tall. He typically wears tan cloth garments or leather armor. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His red hair is heavily combed to the left. His violet eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature, Rich. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 200 gp. Violet garnet (800 gp). Onyx (80 gp). Amethyst (160 gp). Bloodstone (80 gp).

Description: With brown face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a worn and beaten armor. He has dyed his greying white hair a little too much giving a sharp white color. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Sage who has hired him part-time. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the south. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He was granted psionic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and he wants to get laid

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Has a crush, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: Tourmaline (150 gp).

Description: He prefers to wear flannel. His golden hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His eyes are green and beady.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. 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 always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While he appears to be a normal Gnome, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Professionalism, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful, Insane. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.