Description: An older man who wears a white vest and prefers green and tan shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down, he is not a threatening figure. His blonde hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His eyes are violet.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Halflings.

History: Altho was born into a poor family. Growing up, he dreamt of becoming a Wizard, to bring honor to his family’s name. When he came of age, he applied for a position with his town's local guard, looking to work his way up via merit and eventually become a Wizard in service of a powerful lord somewhere. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero.

Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Job, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: A 5'10" southern woman, she is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. Her fur is cut close to her head. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

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 misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Cask lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. Some 8 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Cask never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Family, In love, Has a crush. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears a brown coat over a tan low-cut shirt, and a feathered hat upon his head. His fur, while still mostly white, has prominent grey streaks. His blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Gifted, Logical, Fighting. Bonds: Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. Her chestnut hair is long and unkept. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Tomph isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Half-Orc unity. A true patriot, Tomph would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. While she appears to be a normal Half-Orc, 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 got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and she feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Military, Slave. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: Peridot (60 gp).

Description: He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. His white hair is smooth and relatively long. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving 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, Balam is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Joker, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 2000 sp.