Description: She is in excellent shape and wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized red coat. She keeps her white hair in a pixie cut. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. While she appears to be a normal Halfling, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and retire the richest woman in the west

Ideals: Athletic, Opinionated, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane. Occupation: Carter

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He has a long auburn beard with little hanging trinkets. His violet eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Bernard was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and balancing his hectic life and new spice merchant responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Persistence, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He tends to wear a green poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His hair is short and black. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his writing with anyone who is interested.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered writing. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister.

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This late middle aged woman wears tan robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a falchion, but if one is not available she will default to her sai and is in decent physical shape. She has done her best to style her silver hair to look like a famous performer. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is a hateful person. She taunts others and blames them for her problems. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Ostracized due to the druidic powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Gnomes became a terror of the countryside. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Halfling artifacts is her passion; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: This fat northern woman has a bulbous nose and wears a blue shirt with thin grey vertical stripes and yellow pants. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her hair is white and curly. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and she has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.