Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His golden hair is lengthy. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. A freak accident while working with his Navigator mother left him crippled. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions.

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Disease. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 900 sp.

Description: He wears tattered old clothes. He is physically well-built. His hair is short and black. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Qualen isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Gnomish unity. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Qualen grew up listening to his father's many stories. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: To unite with his brother; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Ideals: Impeccable, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 10000 cp. Tourmaline (40 gp). Red spinel (40 gp).

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a brown coat, and is pretty ugly. He has done his best to style his blue hair to look like a famous performer. His eyes are red and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He also hits on men, regardless of circumstances.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. His first spouse was a Crown-heir, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Has a crush, Nature, Family. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: He wears a pastel coat over a blue low-cut shirt, and a feathered hat upon his head, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 2'11" when asserting himself. His chestnut hair is singed and shortened. His eyes are green and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and to protect his home

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Guardian, Mentor, In love. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 300 pp. Deep green spinel (120 gp). Banded agate (8 gp). Obsidian (8 gp). Rose (40 gp). Jade (120 gp). Deep blue spinel (300 gp). Banded agate (8 gp). Hematite (8 gp).

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Gnomes. His skin is light but he possesses many grey ritualistic tattoos. He wears a white deerstalker hat and white clothes. His hair is brown and very short. His eyes are amber and beady.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. His necromantic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. 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: To be a Brewer again; and he is greedy

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 6000 cp.