Description: This late middle aged woman is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time and is in decent physical shape. Her black fur is singed and shortened. She has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. 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: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Opinionated, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 80 gp. Amethyst (130 gp).

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears professional attire. She has wavy chestnut hair. Her gray eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the east were limited. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and retire the richest woman in the east

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Lazy. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Guardian. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: He wears silk and lounges about seductively. His chestnut hair is heavily combed to the right. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. A true patriot, Miles would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Gifted, Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Military. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 1 Half-Plate.

Description: 4'7" and muscular, this southern woman has the majority of her body covered in plate. Her brown hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: Aline is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. A fanatic, her devotion to her small selection of gods is unquestionable. She claims to be doing their will and will base all her actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: She was born in the south. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Athletic, Extrovert. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 800 sp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: She has a large tan mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her black robe. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. With wild brown hair. Her half smiles and amber eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. Before the accident, she was one of the most outspoken anti-Half-Elven activists. She was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Half-Elven doctor. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Half-Elven compassion.

Flaws: Addict, Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 90 pp.