Description: This tall, slender woman wears a red shirt with thin blue vertical stripes and brown pants. Her chestnut hair is wavy and long. Her green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes orcs are coming to abduct people. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Halflings.

History: The child of a Knight, who enjoyed hunting, Thea was taken on many hunting expeditions. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Halfling conditions. She has worked as a Masseuse like her mother before her.

Motivation: She's in love; and expand her business

Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Enemies, Nature, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 5000 cp. 4 Smokesticks.

Description: An older woman who wears a brown shirt, with a yellow mid length skirt with yellow tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them, she is not a threatening figure. Her silver hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: Gurdis was born the youngest of three triplets. A serious injury left her mother unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm mother. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and retire the richest woman in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Debt. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: This late middle aged woman likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather and is in decent physical shape. Her red hair is still thick. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her violet eyes.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. She is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

History: Grai was born with her father's beautiful face. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Half-Elven companion (her 'brother'). She has dedicated herself to building a better village for her children.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers; and wants to raise her children well

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 220 gp.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a robe, a symbol of the sun god around his neck, and a hammer on his belt. His fur, while still mostly beige, has prominent grey streaks. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: Gifted from a young age, Edge studied abroad. In his youth he was a Guard, and wanted to be a champion fighter when he grew up. He was working during a period of war, and as one of the natives he lived in fear of joining the others in being slaughtered. He saw the brutality and swore off his fighting aspirations, taking his younger sister on his back after seeing his parents die, and fled the country. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Edge fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by giants, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Terse, PTSD. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears suspenders and brown workpants. His shirt is black, and he wears a heavy brown leather apron most of the time. He has shaved his head bald. He has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Shoemaker for the past few years.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Job, Family. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 240 gp.