Description: A plain young-adult man, he prefers to wear brown pants and tee shirts. His black hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His eyes are silver and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Born in the south to a Miner, Mormo learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He struck the Miner job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide his balding. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of gnolls may trigger it at times.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Hupe 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. Hupe 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 taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and he wants revenge against gnolls

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 1000 gp.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty brown coat over it. He has shaved his head bald. His brown eyes peer out from beneath his Stetson brown hat.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Senteq embodies much of what other species detest in the Gnomes. 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 is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Cartwright. He has achieved small success as a Cartwright.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 100 gp. Eye agate (15 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his pickaxe with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His chestnut hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Gnomish culture. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Kellen abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man stands a little under 6'2" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. He has moderate length golden hair. His half smiles and gray eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Slave. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: Just what you see.