Description: A middle-aged man, he tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look, and is pretty ugly. His white hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Priest. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 15 years.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Depressed, Hedonist. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 280 pp. Golden yellow topaz (1000 gp). Brown-green garnet (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This late middle aged man tends to wear a large black jacket and is in decent physical shape. His golden hair is lengthy. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

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. Ostracized due to the martial powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Gnomes became a terror of the countryside. He tends to his Fletcher job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Lazy. Bonds: Guardian, Job, Slave. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. He tends to wear a black poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His red hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. This blue eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He disdains his fellow southerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Odo was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. Because his father participated in the massacre of their homeland, orcs burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. He was preparing to flee to the south, but the outbreak of war prevented him and his mother from journeying south to reunite his family. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Slave, Job, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 4'8" and wears silk and lounges about seductively. His red hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: He was raised in a plains tribe. A gifted student he started as a Slave Trader, but he got bored and became a Shepherd. He became a Shepherd soon after.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Job. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 2700 gp. Jasper (20 gp). Hematite (4 gp). Black pearl (1000 gp). Hematite (4 gp). Sardonyx (20 gp). Brown-green garnet (130 gp). Freshwater pearl (4 gp). Freshwater pearl (4 gp).

Description: This late middle aged man wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with small hat and is in decent physical shape. His black hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His eyes are green.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Oren was raised in a hard working conservative environment. His parents enrolled him in a Fighter school at a young age so that he could practice his martial talents. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: To protect his home; and to be a locksmith again

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Family, Guardian. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 2000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.