Description: He wears silk and lounges about seductively. He carries with him a set of shields, each one with a topaz on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His hair, while still mostly brown, has prominent grey streaks. His eyes are likewise black.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Religious. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 300 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: Standing 2'11", this man is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He wears a small hat to hide his balding. He is baby faced.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Halflings.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Cartwright arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He found a children's book about a Halfling Bard who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

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

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 400 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light blue in addition to tight pants. His hair is blonde and curly. He has gray eyes and a blue hat with a black feather.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Fonkin embodies much of what other species detest in the Gnomes. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 24000 cp.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her beige fur is unkempt and raggedy. She has a dull look in her yellow eyes.

Personality: While she is on the job, she is grim and serious. She understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: Drifting was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Drifting 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 Drifting. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: Finely wrought small gold bracelet (80 gp).

Description: She is wearing a long, white cloak, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 2'10" when asserting herself. Her long auburn hair reaches down to her waist. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines green.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. As she has aged she has sought to do reparations for her actions as a youth. She is also making sure that her compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. She always admired divine-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 6000 cp.