Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears silk and lounges about seductively. His brown hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing poetry.

History: Damakos lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Rich. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She is wearing a long, white cloak. She wears her golden hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is a hateful person. She taunts others and blames them for her problems. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Poor, In love, Criminal record. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 700 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: He is lean but muscular and dresses in grey turtlenecks beneath a black coat with red slacks. He has a brown handlebar mustache and slicked back brown hair. His eyes are brown and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the north. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Halfling people; and halfling compassion

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Racist. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Gnome, and stands approximately 3'3". He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look, and his gloved hand is found clutching a shield. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: Born in the north to a Mayor, Erky learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Mayor. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Military, Job, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 60 gp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: He wears a blue vest and prefers black and yellow shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. He carries with him a set of ceremonial daggers on his belt, each one with a emerald on the hilt. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 100 gp.