Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His skin is also unnaturally pale. With bright blonde hair and a scraggly beard. He has gray eyes and a red hat with a black feather.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Through the years after Theren was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Theren's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Theren and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Insane, Antagonistic. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy golden stubble. He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a brown coat. He has a hunchback. His golden hair, when down, is lengthy. His eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his father's willingness to do anything to win. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look, and he perpetually has his halberd ready. His hair is dark red, silky, and of moderate length. His red eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Beggar hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Nature, Poor. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy blonde stubble. He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He has a hunchback. His blonde hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing writing.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Actor arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 400 pp. Moonstone (80 gp). Bloodstone (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He wears a white collared shirt and brown pants. He accessorizes with a white scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His hair is chestnut and curly. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Ostracized due to the psionic 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 eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and expand his business

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Guardian, Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 12000 cp.