Description: This late middle aged man is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright brown and black, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems and is in decent physical shape. His white hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Oren was born in the east. At a young age he loved to build and create. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the mountains to a summer home near a large cave. He would wander through that large cave and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the mountains due to the painful memories there. Oren took refuge in the large cave and found the beat up club and armor he uses now. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Addict, Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His silver hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Ralf is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To pay off his debts; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Gifted, Justice, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Debt. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 3 Tanglefoot bags. 3 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his sickle, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a skull on it. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. This brown eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is mildly Gnome supremacist, though he does not identify as such. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Spice Merchant but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Gnomish compassion; and a strong sense of loyalty to gnomish people

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Pacifist. Flaws: Racist, Disease. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He carries with him a set of shortbows, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He has achieved small success as a Barkeep.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Rich, Religious. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 22000 sp. Alexandrite (1200 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1200 gp). Lapis lazuli (12 gp). Malachite (12 gp).

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He sports a long black beard, and similarly colored long hair. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Born in the west to a Performer, Fulbar learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Halfling conditions. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Performer for the past few years.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Disciplined, Justice. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 2000 cp.