Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He dresses like a well dressed Shoemaker does. His blonde hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

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. He is an amazing painter.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He struck the Shoemaker job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Shoemaker responsibilities is difficult; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears bulky red painted plate armor. He wears his white hair up in a very large beehive style do. His eyes are gray and catlike.

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 does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Beiro was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He struck the Glassblower job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he is greedy

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Job, Rich, Military. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 3100 sp. Jet (50 gp). Amethyst (50 gp). 1 Darkwood Buckler. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He is wearing a long, tan cloak. He has a very tight haircut. His green eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Orthog was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He found a children's book about a Half-Orc Aristocrat who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 90 pp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy brown stubble. He prefers to wear blue pants and tee shirts. He has a hunchback. He has brown hair. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Burgell isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Gnomish unity. He disdains his fellow southerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Slave, In love. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His purple hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. His silver eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when gnolls swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he wants revenge against gnolls

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 2600 gp. Malachite (8 gp). Golden pearl (100 gp). Black pearl (500 gp).