Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He wears his white hair up. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gray eyes.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1300 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1600 gp).

Description: He wears brown leather gloves, a brown jacket, and tight pants. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His gray fur is thinning but still full. His eyes are copper and catlike.

Personality: Lone is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Depressed, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 180 gp.

Description: He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. He wears a colorful flower in his black hair. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Gnomish conditions. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Insane, Disease, Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 1300 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is renowned for his bright tan suits and hats. He carries with him a set of longswords, each one with a amber on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. He is bald on top and has large white tufts of hair around his ears. His ears are large.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. In his youth he was a Detective, and wanted to be a champion fighter when he grew up. He was working during a period of war, and as one of the natives he lived in fear of joining the others in being slaughtered. He saw the brutality and swore off his fighting aspirations, taking his younger sister on his back after seeing his parents die, and fled the country. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, PTSD. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 23000 sp.