Description: He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. He has wavy chestnut hair. This gray eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Mâku will drive conversation. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the north. 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. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Extrovert, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 1400 sp. Red-brown spinel (40 gp). Azurite (9 gp). Chrysoprase (70 gp).

Description: This tall, slender man is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Seamstress. His blonde hair and beard is wavy and long. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Antagonistic, Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 2300 sp.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears silk and lounges about seductively. His hair is long and auburn with streaks of chestnut, and is pulled back with small grey clips. His beard is chestnut, braided, and well cared for. His fierce violet eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Gnomes.

History: Born in the east his family was never financially stable. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Greedy, Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 10 pp. White pearl (40 gp).

Description: This dark-skinned male dresses in green turtlenecks beneath a black coat with brown slacks. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. He wears his black hair up. His brown eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Trey was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. Being a Tailor kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day.

Ideals: Disciplined, Persistence. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 60 pp. Moonstone (20 gp). Moss agate (15 gp). Blue sapphire (700 gp). Black pearl (1000 gp). White opal (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He dresses like a well dressed Ploughman does. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His hair is short and black. His fierce hazel eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Ploughman arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He worked as a nervous Ploughman and found it very stressful. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 6 years.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he has a crush on the local bookbinder

Ideals: Pacifist, Optimist. Bonds: Job, Rich, Has a crush. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 400 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp).