Description: 3'4" and muscular, this western man tends to wear a white poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His auburn hair is braided into rings. His eyes are hazel.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. A freak accident while working with his Bellfounder father left him crippled. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He wants revenge against gnolls; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Athletic, Opinionated. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 20 gp. Golden yellow topaz (300 gp).

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Halflings. His skin is light but he possesses many blue ritualistic tattoos. He wears a worn and beaten armor. His long red hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Born in the east his family was never financially stable. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and he has a crush on the local masseuse

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Adventurer, Poor, Mentor, Has a crush. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 140 gp. Deep green spinel (60 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears pastel robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a morningstar, but if one is not available she will default to her scimitar. Her black fur has been sun bleached extensively. She has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears suspenders and tan workpants. His shirt is brown, and he wears a heavy tan leather apron most of the time. His tied-back hair is black. His blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: His divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He was granted divine powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and nothing but the best is good enough for him

Ideals: Gifted, Impeccable. Flaws: Disease, Addict, Selfish. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: A 3'1" northern woman, she wears many layers of old clothing at all times. She has dyed her greying auburn hair a little too much giving a sharp auburn color. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She is ready at a moment's notice to give into her darker urges. She is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. She often ends up burning people alive in the fires she starts.

History: She was born in the north. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Ellywick grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Ellywick. Being a Tanner kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 900 sp.