Description: This dark-skinned male is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: The child of a Marshal, who enjoyed hunting, Diggory was taken on many hunting expeditions. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He's also a talented Marshal, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Expand his business; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Lazy, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Job. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 3000 cp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears white painted combat armor at almost all times. His hair is short and chestnut. His hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. Erdan was born on a far western plains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Bookbinder. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 3000 gp. Deep blue spinel (400 gp). Hematite (15 gp). Coral (70 gp). Black pearl (400 gp). Zircon (40 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1300 gp). Pink pearl (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears light armors faded through time and improper care. He has dyed his greying golden hair a little too much giving a sharp golden color. His blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Alston embodies much of what other species detest in the Gnomes. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and wants his loneliness to end

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears a fancy yellow suit. He keeps his long green crest kept up in a rat tail. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. 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 Armorer. He struck the Armorer job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: To be a Shoemaker again; and to reunite with his absent mother

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Job, Family. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: Black pearl (1000 gp). Malachite (8 gp). Sardonyx (70 gp). Amber (140 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An older man who wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body, he is not a threatening figure. With a patchy golden beard and wild golden hair. His blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Halfling in existence. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: He was born in the east. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

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 doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Justice, Artistic, Persistence. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 160 gp. 1 Masterwork Heavy steel shield.