Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His hair is always cut to a buzz. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: Erky 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 uses divination through singing.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. Erky 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. Erky 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. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Extrovert, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 9000 cp.

Description: He wears silk and lounges about seductively. He has dyed his greying chestnut hair a little too much giving a sharp chestnut color. His amber eyes peer out from beneath his deerstalker brown hat.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. As he has aged he has sought to do reparations for his actions as a youth. He is also making sure that his compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Slave Trader arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. 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 has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 310 pp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy red fur. He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light tan in addition to tight pants. He has a hunchback. He wears a top hat to hide his balding. His eyes are likewise hazel. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He takes great joy in being the best Cook in town.

History: He was born into a rich family. Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Cook. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Cook for hire.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 100 pp. Chrysoberyl (130 gp). Brown-green garnet (130 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Sage. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly monstrous two handed axes and tridents. His head has been shaved. His amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is a Sage first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Gnomes.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. 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: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Criminal record, Job, Rich. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 200 gp. Hematite (7 gp). Azurite (7 gp). Onyx (30 gp).

Description: He has a missing left arm. He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. He wears a top hat to hide his balding. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture.

Ideals: Pacifist. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Mentor, Rich. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 31000 sp.