Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears black robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a longbow, but if one is not available he will default to his scythe. He has chestnut hair. He has a dull look in his hazel eyes.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Born to a Armorer, his mother struggled to pay the bills. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Baker. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and balancing his hectic life and new baker responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Baker

Voice: German accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly daggers and crossbows. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her violet eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the east. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Gynk grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Gynk. She has dedicated herself to building a better kind of golem.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Halfling artifacts is her passion; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Passionate. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 500 gp. Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1700 gp).

Description: This tall, slender man wears a brown coat over a yellow low-cut shirt, and a feathered hat upon his head. His hair is cut close to his head. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Gilthur is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Courier they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Spice Merchant, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother.

Ideals: Pacifist, Justice. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He carries with him a set of ceremonial daggers on his belt, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Paelias has worked very hard to control his curse. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Flaws: Selfish, Disease. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 3200 sp.