Description: With violet face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he likes to wear green tank tops with pastel pants. His red crest is knotted and matted. He has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Rathkran grew up listening to his father's many stories. In his 13th year, his parents were killed by a orcs raid, leaving Rathkran alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by orcs. Rathkran was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the orcs.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and he desires to right it; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Job, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: This slender woman stands about 3'2". She wears blue trousers with tan and brown striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. She has dyed her greying white hair a little too much giving a sharp white color. Her eyes are brown and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Veloptima is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. Veloptima abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature greatsword.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found.

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Family, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 30 gp. Eye agate (16 gp).

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He keeps his long blue crest kept up in a rat tail. His eyes are likewise gold.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Dadalan has worked very hard to control his curse. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and his religion dominates his actions

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Shy. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 80 pp. Iolite (30 gp).

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears many layers of old clothing at all times. Her blonde hair is smooth and relatively long. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines hazel.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: Gifted from a young age, Rose studied abroad. Ostracized due to the necromantic powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Halflings became a terror of the countryside. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears a black tunic with brown highlights, and long white pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her long copper crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: She is a Chromatic Dragon in disguise. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. After a long history of fighting, Sora and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 600 gp.