Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her falchion with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She has red hair. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Her arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her parents enrolled her in a Bard school at a young age so that she could practice her arcane talents. She was granted arcane powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world.

Ideals: Passionate, Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 2000 gp. Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp).

Description: He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'11" when asserting himself. He keeps his cinnamon fur in a pixie cut. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He is a Lycanthrope in disguise. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

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

Ideals: Professionalism, Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Miner

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she is dressed in a clean tan cloak covering her clean studded leather. She has a very tight haircut. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. She has all her life been fascinated with poetry.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Thiala grew up listening to her mother's many stories. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered poetry. She has dedicated herself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 90 gp. 1 Masterwork Light wooden shield.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears bulky white painted plate armor. His golden hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His eyes are a pleasant violet.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his mother. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 1200 gp. Violet garnet (1400 gp). Aquamarine (1400 gp). Rhodochrosite (8 gp). Hematite (8 gp). Lapis lazuli (8 gp).