Description: She is dressed in earthy colors with a brown and grey handkerchief worn on her right side. She carries with her a set of rapiers on her belt, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. Her fur is cut close to her head. Her hazel eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her writing with anyone who is interested.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Art was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Like her father and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Mortician. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Family, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 240 pp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1800 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (4000 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (70 gp).

Description: He is in excellent shape and typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep tan leather and dull black iron scale mail. He has shaved his head bald. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: Riardon was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, he put together a working one.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire; and he has a crush on the local adventurer

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence. Flaws: Insane, Depressed. Bonds: Has a crush. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned woman, she wears a red collared shirt and tan skirt. She accessorizes with a brown scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. Her chestnut hair is still thick. Her eyes are brown and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Halflings.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Vani 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 Vani. Being a Sellsword kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture; and to end her boredom

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Racist, Mundane. Bonds: Slave, Criminal record. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged man likes to wear ponchos typically of a light green in addition to tight pants, and a wedding ring on his left hand. He sports a flattop hair cut. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: Born to a Navigator, his father struggled to pay the bills. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: In love, Nature, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Mason

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 1100 sp. Onyx (40 gp). Golden pearl (80 gp). Lapis lazuli (16 gp).