Description: He is scrawny and has patchy lavender fur. He wears a tight fitting tan shirt and pants. He has a hunchback. His broad hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Tabaxis in the west were limited. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 46000 sp.

Description: He wears skinny pants and wears a brown and blue robe with the hood down. He is portly but not overly obese. He has dyed his greying chestnut hair a little too much giving a sharp chestnut color. His gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Zook embodies much of what other species detest in the Gnomes. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. 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. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Greedy. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. His long gray fur is drawn into a two foot long braid. His blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Cloak hails from a village terrorized by orcs. Cloak was born on a far western mountains where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Shoemaker. After a long history of fighting, Cloak and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: A deep hatred of orcs; and he's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 2600 sp.

Description: He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light green in addition to tight pants. He carries with him a set of daggers on his belt, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. His long black hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His gray eyes peer out from beneath his broad green hat.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Performer arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist, Professionalism. Bonds: Rich, Job, Military. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 18000 cp. 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Masterwork Heavy steel shield.

Description: This late middle aged man wears red painted combat armor at almost all times and is in decent physical shape. His beige fur is still thick. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: This man loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. 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: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 700 gp. A small bag of saffron. (30 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1800 gp). Jeweled anklet (1000 gp).