Description: She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. Her hair is short and golden. She has hazel eyes and a brown hat with a black feather.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Beggar business.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Her father was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She has worked as a Beggar like her father before her.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and she desires to right it; and expand her business

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Guardian, Slave, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: Eye agate (9 gp).

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She is dressed in earthy colors with a black and blue handkerchief worn on her left side. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: She was born in the east. She has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her longsword with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She has dyed her greying cinnamon fur a little too much giving a sharp cinnamon color. Her copper eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. The war was a terrible time for her, and Spring does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Spring was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. After a long history of fighting, Spring and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Mentor. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 260 gp.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears long strands of aquamarine and short blue dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. He has a long red beard with little hanging trinkets. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever he goes.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and balancing his hectic life and new spice merchant responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This southern man is abnormally tall. He is dressed in an above average manner. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He wears a small hat to hide his balding. His copper eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Tabaxis in the south were limited. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 160 gp. Rhodochrosite (13 gp).