Description: This northern woman wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her eyes are green and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She hates gnolls. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She 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, Eran was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the north were limited. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and she desires to right it; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: Banded agate (13 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a pot bellied western woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears a green cloak and cross-gartered tan stockings. She has done her best to style her chestnut hair to look like a famous performer. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge.

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Bonds: Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 400 gp. Chrysoberyl (150 gp).

Description: She has a missing right leg. She wears a grey cloak and cross-gartered blue stockings. Her silver hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. Her blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Miller who has hired her part-time. She is a great chef.

History: Born in the west to a Miller, Heather learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent mother; and she's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Has a crush, Job, Family. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 50 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp).

Description: This late middle aged woman wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress) and is in decent physical shape. She has dyed her greying auburn hair a little too much giving a sharp auburn color. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: Gifted from a young age, Portia studied abroad. In her 12th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and she feels threatened by others

Ideals: Gifted, Optimist. Flaws: Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 900 gp. 1 Minor magic item.