Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with broad hat. Her silver hair is greasy and uncared for. Her brown eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her writing with anyone who is interested.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Artistic, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Emotional. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: He is typically in his Roofer uniform. He carries a battered dagger and tarnished sai as well. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide his balding. His eyes are blue.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Halflings.

History: Howard was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the north, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the north for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way south. He's also a talented Bather, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease, Racist. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 140 gp. Chalcedony (50 gp). 1 Masterwork Musical instrument.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left leg, she wears a tight fitting white shirt and pants. She has a long brown ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She fancies herself a trickster and likes to rely on her wits to carry the day. She cares for her older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Optimist, Athletic. Bonds: Family, Military. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 150 gp. Silver pearl (40 gp). Smoky quartz (50 gp). Rhodochrosite (13 gp).

Description: This slender man stands about 5'11". He wears silk and lounges about seductively. He sports a flattop hair cut. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He was born in a small desert village. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and he wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away

Flaws: Shy, Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Slave. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 3000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This malnourished man is dressed in an above average manner. He wears his white hair up in a very large beehive style do. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He plays an instrument quite well.

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. 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 was granted arcane powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end.

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 240 gp.