Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her red hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her violet eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. She cares deeply for her spouse and does her best to make sure her guests look presentable.

History: Born in the west to a Cook, Giselle learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. A gifted student she started as a Spice Merchant, but she got bored and became a Cook. She has worked as a Cook like her father before her.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Impeccable, Optimist. Bonds: In love, Job. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat. She is portly but not overly obese. Her hair is blue and curly. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is a hateful person. She taunts others and blames them for her problems. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. Being a Carpenter kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 320 gp. 1 Silk rope.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing white cape and mantle trimmed with soft red waves gently in the breeze. His chestnut hair is smooth and relatively long. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He works hard and plays hard.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His necromantic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, he put together a working one.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Gifted, Persistence. Flaws: Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 210 gp. 4 Antitoxin.

Description: He has a missing left arm. He wears a brown coat over a green low-cut shirt, and a Stetson hat upon his head. His chestnut hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Through the years after Robert was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Robert's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Halfling artifacts is his passion; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 300 gp.