Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he is wearing a long, brown, dusty cloak. His auburn hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Gifted, Joker, Logical. Bonds: Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She wears long strands of jet and short white dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths, and carries quarterstaffs. Her hair is blonde and very short. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. After a long history of fighting, Paela and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. She wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. She wears a deerstalker hat to cover her moderate length brass crest. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. 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-brother.

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her parents enrolled her in a Fighter school at a young age so that she could practice her psionic talents. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Slave, Family. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: An older woman who wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during, she is not a threatening figure. Her auburn hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. She has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: She loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from her. She is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Gnome in existence. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Justice, Logical. Bonds: Adventurer, Military, Enemies. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 20 pp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp).