Description: He is in excellent shape and wears skinny pants and wears a blue and red robe with the hood down. His auburn hair is still thick. He has green eyes.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. Qualen was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Qualen decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Athletic, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 600 gp. Aquamarine (700 gp). Red-brown spinel (40 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (6 gp).

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. She is renowned for her bright brown dresses and hats. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her fur is brown and curly. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep amber.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her painting with anyone who is interested.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Mundane, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Slave, Family. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (500 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (90 gp).

Description: He is a husky man, who wears a blue costume with the symbols of magic on his torso. Sporting a chestnut mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. His fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: The child of a Ploughman, who enjoyed hunting, Sindri was taken on many hunting expeditions. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature warhammer.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is his passion

Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Guardian, Nature, Adventurer, Slave. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 2000 gp. Azurite (12 gp). Black pearl (400 gp). Chrysoberyl (90 gp). Lapis lazuli (12 gp). Jet (90 gp). Onyx (40 gp).

Description: He wears white robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a bow, but if one is not available he will default to his hand crossbow. He carries a battered bow and tarnished hand crossbow as well. He wears a deerstalker hat to hide his balding. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Chay fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy, Hedonist. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 27000 sp.