Description: This slender woman stands about 3'0". She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her blonde hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Halflings.

History: Born in the west her family was never financially stable. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Halfling conditions. She has never given up on her writing dream.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and a strong sense of loyalty to dwarven people

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Hedonist, Racist. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: She likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her auburn hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. She has hazel eyes.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. Pyntle enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Pyntle grew up listening to her father's many stories. Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Hedonist, PTSD, Fearful. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 800 gp. Chalcedony (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears bulky tan painted plate armor. His hair is black and curly. His blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Gnomish culture. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Varis was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He struck the Glassblower job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: To pay off his debts; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Mentor, Job, Debt. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 3'3" when asserting herself. She wears her blonde hair up. Her amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Human culture. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Donella hails from a village terrorized by giants. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way north. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Racist, Fearful. Bonds: Adventurer, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: Malachite (16 gp). Jade (80 gp). Rose (70 gp). Lapis lazuli (16 gp).