Description: She is in excellent shape and wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with wide-brimmed hat. Her chestnut hair is matted, messy, and big. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep green.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Halflings.

History: She was born in the north, but her parents moved at a very young age to the east. Paela was born on a far northern plains where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Layabout. She has achieved small success as a Layabout.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Gnomish people; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: With brown face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he typically wears green cloth garments or leather armor. His purple hair is still thick. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Gardener. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Cimer is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Cimer was raised in a hard working conservative environment. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: A deep hatred of giants; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by giants, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Job, Family, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp).

Description: She is an average looking eastern female in her early mid-life. She wears a tan tunic with grey highlights, and long green pants that bunch up around her shoes. She has wavy golden hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. 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: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Her childhood dream was to be a Scribe, but she was a colossal failure. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 3 years.

Motivation: To pay off her debts; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Family, Rich, Job, Debt. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 1000 sp.

Description: This tall, slender woman tends to wear a large blue jacket. Her brown hair is wavy and long. This green eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Theirastra lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent mother.

Flaws: Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 6000 cp. Hematite (16 gp). 1 Bullseye lantern.

Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He wears his auburn hair down. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: He is a Deep Scion in disguise. Before the accident, he was one of the most outspoken anti-Halfling activists. He was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Halfling doctor. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and doesn't want to be a miner and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Addict, Racist. Bonds: Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 160 gp.