Description: 5'3" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing blue cape and mantle trimmed with soft green waves gently in the breeze. His golden hair is knotted and matted. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep brown.

Personality: Laucian hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his painting career. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Gardener but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He was born in the east. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Artistic, Pacifist. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 2400 sp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (700 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp).

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His red hair has been sun bleached extensively. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. 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, Miles is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. His first spouse was a Spy, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Justice. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 3000 cp. Rhodochrosite (15 gp).

Description: He has a missing left leg. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized tan coat. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Glim is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He is obsessed with his god.

History: Glim hails from a village terrorized by goblins. As a young child he wandered into the woods despite his father's warnings against it. Afterwards he claimed he had encountered goblins who tried to eat his hand. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to goblins demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by goblins, and he desires to right it.

Ideals: Extrovert. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time, and carries longswords. His blonde hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His eyes are blue.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his father. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. William fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined, Extrovert. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: Sard (30 gp).

Description: This tall, slender man wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. His hair is cut close to his head. His gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

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 is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Halflings.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he is greedy

Ideals: Persistence, Fighting. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 90 gp.