Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears baggy white pantaloons and a blue scarf. Her chestnut hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. Her fierce violet eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Nikki was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the south were limited. She has achieved small success as a Unemployed.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Bonds: Poor, Job, Military, Mentor, Immigrant. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 500 sp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp).

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy copper crest. She wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. She has a hunchback. Her copper crest, when down, is lengthy. Her eyes are likewise red.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She works hard and plays hard.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. 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: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 4000 cp. Coral (120 gp). Eye agate (8 gp). Deep blue spinel (400 gp).

Description: She wears suspenders and black workpants. Her shirt is brown, and she wears a heavy black leather apron most of the time. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her sword, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a dagger on it. Her blue crest is lengthy and is close to two feet long. She has red eyes.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: She was born in the east. She worked as a nervous Masseuse and found it very stressful. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: She has a crush on the local Farmer; and to reunite with her absent mother

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Immigrant, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 1700 sp. 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: She dresses in blue turtlenecks beneath a red coat with yellow slacks. She carries with her a set of spears, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her blonde hair is smooth and relatively long. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. Further she is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: 5'7" and muscular, this southern woman typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep grey leather and dull brown iron scale mail. She wears her auburn hair down. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Armorer. The war was a terrible time for her, and Ida does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She got into the Armorer business at a young age. When Ida reached her early adolescence her Human mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She tends to her Armorer job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: Just what you see.