Description: This woman is very fat, and typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep tan leather and dull brown iron scale mail. Her golden hair is heavily combed to the right. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She pushes her goals aggressively. She is also a coward if confronted.

History: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the east. In her 15th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Addict, Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Courier

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

Possessions: 100 pp.

Description: This woman is renowned for her bright tan dresses and hats. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized aquamarine on her right hand. She has no hair. Her fierce brown eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Arara liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and regain custody of her son

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Family, Nature. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His hair is short and blonde. His eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: He hates Halflings with a passion. As such he is filled with self loathing. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Halflings.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and to prove his worth to the world

Flaws: Racist, Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: This tall, slender man dresses in black turtlenecks beneath a violet coat with white slacks. His red hair is smooth and relatively long. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his blue eyes.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

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.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 400 sp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.