Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Gnomes. His skin is light but he possesses many red ritualistic tattoos. He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His white hair is long and unkept. His ears are large.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Eberdeb was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Performer.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he is greedy

Ideals: Philantrophist, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. Smoky quartz (40 gp). Amber (160 gp). Aquamarine (1100 gp). Smoky quartz (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a tan cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. He wears a colorful flower in his blonde hair. His blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Weaver profession.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. Being a Glassblower kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Glassblower responsibilities is difficult.

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 300 gp. Red-brown spinel (90 gp). Blue quartz (11 gp). Brown-green garnet (90 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears professional attire. He wears his auburn hair down. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the south were limited. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Mason again; and further expansion of business

Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job, Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: Coral (100 gp).

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy chestnut stubble. He wears a brown cloak and cross-gartered yellow stockings. He has a hunchback. He keeps his chestnut hair in a pixie cut. His eyes are blue.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Carpenter born in the past three hundred years. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Carpenter.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 50 pp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears a green deerstalker hat and green clothes. He is an epitome of beauty. He wears a deerstalker hat to cover his moderate length red hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes giants are coming to abduct people. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Dwarves.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. 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: Dwarven compassion; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane, Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp).