Description: This eastern man is abnormally tall. He wears a violet cloak and cross-gartered tan stockings. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His chestnut hair is long and unkept. His eyes are a pleasant brown.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He uses divination through singing.

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. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 was granted psionic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a tan shirt with thin brown vertical stripes and green pants. His hair, while still mostly auburn, has prominent grey streaks. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. 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. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Glim fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he is content

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Insane, Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He stands about 4'4" and wears tattered old clothes. His left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. He sports a flattop hair cut. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears tattered old clothes, and is pretty ugly. His auburn hair is lengthy. He has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Ûshbaka hails from a village terrorized by giants. He always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 300 gp. Rose (20 gp). Eye agate (14 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He dresses like a well dressed Spice Merchant does. He wears his white hair up. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He is a great chef.

History: A child with a great deal of singing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Spice Merchant for the past few years.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted, Artistic. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 800 gp. Chalcedony (70 gp). Amber (90 gp). Banded agate (7 gp).