Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears a tight fitting tan shirt and pants. His green crest is knotted and matted. His eyes are gold and catlike.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes orcs are coming to abduct people. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. In his 17th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother 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. After a long history of fighting, Bharash and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Many orcs want him driven away; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and he desires to right it

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 100 gp. Eye agate (14 gp). Brown-green garnet (100 gp). 1 Everburning torch. 1 Antitoxin. 2 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears light armors faded through time and improper care. He has shaved his head bald. His ears are large.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with writing. He constantly tries to fill his life with writing. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 900 pp. Violet garnet (1600 gp). White pearl (70 gp). Rose (50 gp). Golden pearl (70 gp). Sard (50 gp). Rose (50 gp). Peridot (50 gp). Rhodochrosite (14 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. He is physically well-built. His tied-back hair is auburn. His eyes are a pleasant brown.

Personality: He hates Halflings with a passion. As such he is filled with self loathing. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Halflings.

History: A powerful slaver made him what he is. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Joser fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and halfling compassion

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears light armors faded through time and improper care, and is pretty ugly. He has wavy black hair. His fierce violet eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Warryn embodies much of what other species detest in the Gnomes. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. 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 was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 180 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body, and a wedding ring on his right hand. His white hair is knotted and matted. His eyes are black and beady.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. The war was a terrible time for him, and Vassago does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. Some 7 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Vassago never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: In love, Military, Religious. Occupation: Servant

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 300 gp. Moss agate (9 gp). White pearl (40 gp). Jasper (20 gp). Hematite (9 gp).