Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Halflings. His skin is dark but he possesses many yellow ritualistic tattoos. He tends to wear a red poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His black hair is thinning but still full. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Hupe was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Hupe decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. 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 wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: 5'6" and muscular, this eastern woman usually wears her violet robe and has her lance always slung over her shoulder. Her chestnut hair is braided into rings. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. The war was a terrible time for her, and Xanaphia does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: Xanaphia lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the east, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the east for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way west. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Bellfounder they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Barrister, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Barrister and was forced into it by her family; and to unite with her sister

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Disease, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Family. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 400 sp. 3 Acid flasks.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He wears dull grey sweaters, loose red pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed axe, just in case. His tied-back hair is auburn. His brown eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: Theodoric was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He struck the Tailor job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Slave. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 160 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (11 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright green and brown, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her white eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is a Shoemaker first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job, Religious. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 100 gp.