Description: He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His silver crest is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His red eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Addict, Shy, Fearful, Insane. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 400 pp. Red garnet (40 gp). Blue star sapphire (1400 gp).

Description: He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. His brown hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He was granted psionic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and to settle down with his crush

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. He carries with him a set of maces on his belt, each one with a opal on the hilt. He has moderate length red hair. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: His divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Ostracized due to the divine powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Gnomes became a terror of the countryside. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence, Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 4000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He dresses well, wearing tan shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. With bright blonde hair and a scraggly beard. His eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Mason arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Through the years after Rûg was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Rûg's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Rûg and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Mason and was forced into it by his family; and expand his business

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich, Family. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 400 gp. Silver pearl (60 gp).

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. 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 hair is black and curly. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady blue eyes.

Personality: He hates Gnomes with a passion. As such he is filled with self loathing. He is a great chef.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature hammer.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Silver pearl (60 gp). Chrysoprase (50 gp). Jasper (50 gp). 1 Darkwood Buckler. 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Half-Plate.