Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His wide-brimmed hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He is an amazing painter.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and wants his loneliness to end

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 100 gp. Aquamarine (900 gp).

Description: This western man typically wears black cloth garments or leather armor. His clothes are grease stained in places. He wears a deerstalker hat to cover his moderate length red hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Gnome in existence. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Justice, Artistic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Guard

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

Possessions: 600 gp. Red-brown spinel (60 gp). Violet garnet (500 gp). Coral (60 gp). Black star sapphire (900 gp).

Description: He prefers to wear flannel. He is portly but not overly obese. He wears his black hair down. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: He comes from a rich western family. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. 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; and to unite with his sister

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Darkwood Buckler. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A 4'2" western man, he tends to wear a black poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His brown hair is unkempt and raggedy. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His parents were killed by illithids in a raid when he was still a young child. The illithids captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and a deep hatred of illithids

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Military. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: Solid gold idol (500 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp).