Description: This southern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears long strands of topaz and short green dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. Her green crest is thinning but still full. Her eyes are likewise red. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: This woman loves dancing and to teach people dancing more than just about anything. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. 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 is greedy; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Mentor. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 100 gp. Rhodochrosite (12 gp). Deep green spinel (130 gp). Blue star sapphire (700 gp). 1 Good lock.

Description: She dresses in green turtlenecks beneath a grey coat with white slacks. She carries with her a set of swords on her belt, each one with a emerald on the hilt. Her white crest is smooth and relatively long. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of brigands once and for all.

History: Born in the north her family was never financially stable. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered painting. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Revenge; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Poor. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: She is a pot bellied southern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears a robe, a symbol of her god around her neck, and a dagger on her belt. She has wavy chestnut hair. She has a dull look in her brown eyes.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. Being born in the south, 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 south 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 north. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Family, Military. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a pastel coat over a red low-cut shirt, and a deerstalker hat upon his head, and is pretty ugly. He has no fur. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady copper eyes.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 98. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. While he appears to be a normal Tabaxi, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats.

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Selfish. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: Just what you see.