Description: She is lean but muscular and wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. She is bald on top and has large brown tufts of hair around her ears. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Vani embodies much of what other species detest in the Halflings. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Military, Religious. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: Amber (60 gp). 4 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: This northern man prefers to wear grey clothing when he does not wear armor. His clothes are grease stained in places. His hair is always cut to a buzz. He has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. 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: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and obtaining odd cultural dwarven artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Religious, Adventurer. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: He wears black trousers with white and violet striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts, and he perpetually has his glaive ready. He has no hair. He has a dull look in his black eyes.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

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

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive, Selfish. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with tan lining and desert motifs. Her hair is chestnut and curly. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

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. Her father disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her father, she was betrayed dozens of times. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and she is greedy

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Greedy. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 40 gp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (30 gp).