Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a white coat over a blue low-cut shirt, and a broad hat upon his head. His red hair is singed and shortened. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

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 is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. While he appears to be a normal Gnome, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. 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 nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Persistence, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 500 gp. Bloodstone (30 gp). Rich purple corundum (1000 gp). Freshwater pearl (14 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress), and a wedding ring on his left hand. He has a very tight haircut. His eyes are likewise violet. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Erevan hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his singing career. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Erevan was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Erevan decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He has since married many spouses, only to have them die. He claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: In love, Criminal record. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He very much looks the part of a Carpenter. His silver hair is smooth and relatively long. His eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Carpenter but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He tends to his Carpenter job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and to be a beggar again

Ideals: Pacifist. Bonds: Job, Poor, Guardian, Religious. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 3000 gp. Solid gold idol (800 gp). Gold cup set with emeralds (8000 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (120 gp). A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (120 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (800 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (120 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1700 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1700 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (500 gp).

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he is dressed in earthy colors with a black and white handkerchief worn on his right side. He wears a top hat to cover his moderate length black hair. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. He always admired divine-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. 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; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This northern man is abnormally tall. He wears a tattered pair of loose blue pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His bronze crest is kept up in a ponytail inside a small hat. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Born in the north to a Shoemaker, Mugrunden learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. His childhood dream was to be a Doctor, but he was a colossal failure. He's also a talented Doctor, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Shoemaker responsibilities is difficult; and to be a doctor again

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 1000 gp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (600 gp).