Description: He is scrawny and has patchy blonde stubble. He wears a brown vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His green leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his brown boots flare out at the collars. He has a hunchback. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy blonde hair. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Gnomes.

History: Born to a Tailor, his mother struggled to pay the bills. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and gnomish compassion

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His auburn hair is heavily combed to the left. His amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: Hubert was born with his father's beautiful face. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Hubert grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Hubert. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Slave, Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 80 gp. Red garnet (110 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears skinny pants and wears a brown and black robe with the hood down. He has done his best to style his blonde hair to look like a famous performer. This green eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. Vanuath enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Born in the south to a Miller, Vanuath learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. 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 Miller. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and expand his business

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 500 gp. Hematite (8 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (8 gp). Jasper (50 gp). Red-brown spinel (110 gp). Jet (110 gp). Sard (50 gp).

Description: He wears a tattered pair of loose blue pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. He has styled his scarlet crest well, parting it to the left. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother 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 worked as a Ruler like his father before him.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This northern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears a tattered pair of loose brown pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. His crest, while still mostly bronze, has prominent grey streaks. His eyes are likewise red. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He bought a greataxe and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by giants, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Joker, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 700 gp. Black pearl (1200 gp). Black star sapphire (700 gp). Eye agate (13 gp). White opal (700 gp).