Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. Her hair, while still mostly black, has prominent grey streaks. Her green eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

History: She was born in the east, but her parents moved at a very young age to the south. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Job, In love, Immigrant. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 190 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. She has silver hair. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Bethrynna was born on a far northern plains where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Gardener. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and expand her business

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Job, Slave, Immigrant. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: Malachite (14 gp).

Description: With blue face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He has no hair. His gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: A powerful slaver made him what he is. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Religious, Mentor, Slave. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: With grey face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears a white costume with the symbols of the sun god on her torso. She keeps her black hair in a pixie cut. Her blue 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 is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Halflings.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Halfling conditions. She has never given up on her music dream.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to prove her worth to the world

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Depressed, Racist, Impulsive. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 4000 cp. Blue quartz (4 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged man prefers to wear blue pants and tee shirts, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His chestnut hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: A powerful slaver made him what he is. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. Some 2 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Eberdeb never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: In love, Mentor. Occupation: Banker

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 140 gp. Coral (50 gp).