Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Gnomes. His skin is light but he possesses many white ritualistic tattoos. He wears a green vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His white leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his green boots flare out at the collars. His brown hair, when down, is lengthy. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He has all his life been fascinated with poetry.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Shoemaker work with an outfit from a few towns over. Shoemaker work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter; and balancing his hectic life and new shoemaker responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Secretive. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 3000 gp. Malachite (8 gp). Jet (70 gp). Sard (60 gp). Brown-green garnet (70 gp). Deep blue spinel (300 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). Black pearl (300 gp). Carnelian (60 gp). Deep blue spinel (300 gp). Azurite (8 gp). Golden pearl (70 gp). Blue quartz (8 gp). Red spinel (70 gp). Emerald (600 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a tattered pair of loose red pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. He has wavy beige fur. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of illithids may trigger it at times.

History: He was born at the edge of vast mountains. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He struck the Soapmaker job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Many illithids want him driven away.

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Nature, Job. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: Deep green spinel (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He sports yellow clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. With bright golden hair and a scraggly beard. His gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 1000 sp. 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Masterwork Light steel shield. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Masterwork Light wooden shield.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears blue painted combat armor at almost all times. He has styled his lavender fur well, parting it to the left. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines yellow.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: Jade lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the north, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the north for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way south. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature sai.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 200 pp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (90 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (70 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (7000 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (90 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (900 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp).

Description: He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright green and grey, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. He carries with him a set of sais on his belt, each one with a emerald on the hilt. His red crest is drawn into a tight pony tail with a dagger scrunchie. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and balancing his hectic life and new marshal responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Job, Slave, Adventurer. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: Just what you see.