Description: She usually wears her white robe and has her shortspear always slung over her shoulder, and carries shortspears. Her chestnut hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She refers to her adoptive father for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Halflings in Vani's homeland. Vani decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Jeweler they were divorced and she won custody of their son. She worked as a Detective, and she later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 2000 sp. Smoky quartz (60 gp). Jasper (60 gp). Lapis lazuli (13 gp). Freshwater pearl (13 gp).

Description: He is a mite stocky and is wearing a long, violet, dusty cloak. His golden hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He has hazel eyes and a violet hat with a white feather.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. He cares deeply for his spouse and does his best to make sure his guests look presentable.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Gunter was born on a far eastern plains where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Animal Trainer. Some 3 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Gunter never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Gifted, Optimist. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: In love, Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 4000 sp. Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp).

Description: She is a mite stocky and tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She has a dull look in her violet eyes.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: She got into the Spice Merchant business at a young age. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Bonds: Enemies, Family, Job, In love, Adventurer. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 1300 gp.

Description: He is in excellent shape and wears a grey shirt with thin pastel vertical stripes and green pants. He has moderate length blonde hair. His gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He is an amazing painter.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He has dedicated himself to building a better kind of golem.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Bonds: Adventurer, Slave, Religious. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: Just what you see.