Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears professional attire. With bright white hair and a scraggly beard. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Tordek isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Dwarven unity. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she has the majority of her body covered in plate. She wears a Stetson hat to hide her balding. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Nikki embodies much of what other species detest in the Halflings. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: This man wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty yellow coat over it. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His broad hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. 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, Jocelyn is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born into a rich family. In his 18th year, his parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Jocelyn alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Jocelyn was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and many illithids want him driven away

Ideals: Persistence, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She usually wears her grey robe and has her nunchaku always slung over her shoulder. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. Geva is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Being born in the east, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the east for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way south. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Spy and was forced into it by her family; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Family, Religious. Occupation: Spy

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 150 gp. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears a green costume with the symbols of luck on her torso. Her hair is chestnut and very short. She has gold eyes.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Her parents enrolled her in a Bard school at a young age so that she could practice her necromantic talents. 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: Halfling compassion; and a strong sense of loyalty to halfling people

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Racist. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 500 sp. 1 Chain shirt.