Description: He is a pot bellied southern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He is wearing a long, brown, dusty cloak. He is bald on top and has large blonde tufts of hair around his ears. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Pallabar embodies much of what other species detest in the Gnomes. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Pallabar was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 1500 sp. Moss agate (16 gp). Tourmaline (90 gp). Sardonyx (20 gp).

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears dark leathers with embroidery. He has no hair. His blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: This man loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He worked as a nervous Butcher and found it very stressful. He became a Butcher soon after.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and balancing his hectic life and new butcher responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave, Job. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 120 gp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (30 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He is physically well-built. His golden hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He disdains his fellow northerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Cory was born with his father's beautiful face. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

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

Flaws: Disease, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 700 gp. A delicate brass dragon egg (30 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His black crest is lengthy. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Born in the north to a Unemployed, Azzakh learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father 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 achieved small success as a Unemployed.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and he's looking for his big break

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 1000 sp. Eye agate (10 gp). Jet (110 gp).

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he is dressed in a clean black cloak covering his clean studded leather. He has done his best to style his orange fur to look like a famous performer. His amber eyes peer out from beneath his top black 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. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Courier. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Courier and was forced into it by his family; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Antagonistic, Insomniac. Bonds: Military, Job, Family. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 800 gp. Fiery yellow corundum (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.