Description: She is a pot bellied northern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her brown hair has been sun bleached extensively. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Philomena isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Halfling unity. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She moved out west to avoid the crime she committed. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture.

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Herbalist

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

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is well dressed, constantly wearing a black suit, brown shirt, and blue tie. He carries with him a set of glaives, each one with a emerald on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. He wears his bronze crest up. His gold unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. The war was a terrible time for him, and Gorbundus does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Through the years after Gorbundus was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Gorbundus's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized white coat. His hair, while still mostly brown, has prominent grey streaks. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Optimist, Fighting. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy white stubble. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She has a hunchback. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady green eyes.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Philantrophist, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: This tall, slender woman prefers to wear green pants and tee shirts. Her white hair is thinning but still full. Her eyes are likewise black.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation she is generally quite perceptive. She notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: The child of southern immigrants she idolized her father. Armara was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Armara decided she wanted neither the life of her father nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 6000 cp.