Description: This man does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His moppish red hair is in a traditional bowl cut. This brown eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: This man loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He was granted arcane powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is his passion.

Ideals: Artistic, Logical, Gifted. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 6000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a pot bellied southern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. He has a brown handlebar mustache and slicked back brown hair. He has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: Heian is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: A powerful wizard made him what he is. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and money/treasure

Ideals: Athletic, Extrovert, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 100 gp. Deep green spinel (100 gp). Chrysoprase (40 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His red hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His eyes are gray.

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. Mogg enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Mogg 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 has dedicated himself to building a better kind of golem.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and to be a server again

Ideals: Persistence, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: In love, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 380 gp.

Description: This western man wears a black cloak and cross-gartered blue stockings. His clothes are grease stained in places. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Humans in the west were limited. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Impulsive, Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 20 pp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior, and carries rapiers. His black hair is knotted and matted. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father 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. After a long history of fighting, Halimath and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He wants revenge against giants; and revenge

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Forgetful, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: Chrysoprase (60 gp). Black star sapphire (1300 gp).