Description: This fat southern woman has a bulbous nose and wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her chestnut hair is heavily combed to the right. Her brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: She was born at the edge of vast island. Like her father and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Barber. She has worked as a Barber like her father before her.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and expand her business

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and is dressed in an above average manner. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He is baby faced.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Halfling in existence. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when gnolls swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and he desires to right it; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 100 gp. Eye agate (16 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. Her silver hair is smooth and relatively long. Her gray eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: Her druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Blacksmith hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She was granted druidic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Depressed, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Attractive. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 1500 sp.

Description: 6'5" and muscular, this northern man is typically in his Barkeep uniform. His long white crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. His ears are large.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Barkeep responsibilities is difficult; and to be a courier again

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, In love. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 340 gp.

Description: She wears many layers of old clothing at all times, and carries whips. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

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 illithids once and for all.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 290 gp.