Description: He wears many layers of old clothing at all times, and he perpetually has his glaive ready. His head has been shaved. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady amber eyes.

Personality: He hates Gnomes with a passion. As such he is filled with self loathing. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He has achieved small success as a Body Guard.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Poor, Military, Job. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his mace with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. With bright red hair and a scraggly beard. He has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. 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 happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Mercenary arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Rich, In love, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He is typically in his Spice Merchant uniform. His hair is brown and very short. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Spice Merchant. He has never given up on his painting dream.

Motivation: Expand his business; and to be a mercenary again

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 7000 gp. Moss agate (8 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1000 gp). Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). Banded agate (8 gp). Blue quartz (8 gp). Malachite (8 gp). Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). Onyx (30 gp). Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). Fire opal (600 gp). Azurite (8 gp). Star ruby (600 gp). Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His hair, while still mostly red, has prominent grey streaks. He has a dull look in his black eyes.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. In his 17th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Terse, Impulsive, Fearful. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He has the majority of his body covered in plate. His moppish black hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His hazel eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. As he has aged he has sought to do reparations for his actions as a youth. He is also making sure that his compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. Ostracized due to the divine powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Gnomes became a terror of the countryside. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help.

Ideals: Gifted, Justice. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 2000 gp. White pearl (70 gp). Black star sapphire (1300 gp). Blue quartz (15 gp). Jet (70 gp). Citrine (50 gp). Chrysoberyl (70 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (15 gp). 1 Minor magic item.