Description: He is scrawny and has patchy black stubble. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his dagger with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He has a hunchback. He has black hair. He has gray eyes and a grey hat with a red feather.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Alston embodies much of what other species detest in the Gnomes. He works hard and plays hard.

History: Alston was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his pickaxe with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt, and he perpetually has his pickaxe ready. He keeps his long red fur kept up in a rat tail. His green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Silent 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 Silent. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: Lapis lazuli (12 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp). 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. His moppish red hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His half smiles and hazel eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Blacksmith who has hired him part-time. Solomon is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Gifted from a young age, Solomon studied abroad. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: He wants to get laid; and to unite with his sister

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Has a crush, Family. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 160 gp. Moss agate (12 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: This northern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. His white hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a skull scrunchie. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady hazel eyes.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He disdains his fellow northerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. Olunt abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 4000 cp. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: This eastern man is wearing a long, green cloak. His clothes are grease stained in places. His auburn hair is long and unkept. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the east. Ostracized due to the necromantic powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Halflings became a terror of the countryside. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 3000 sp. Lapis lazuli (16 gp). Moonstone (40 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (16 gp). Moonstone (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.