Description: A stocky lighter skinned woman, she wears a simple blue robe with violet stripes complete with hood. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. She would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Shamil 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 Shamil. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears a tattered pair of loose red pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. His chestnut hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His eyes are hazel and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. After a long history of fighting, Oblar and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Joker, Extrovert. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 900 gp. Rhodochrosite (4 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She wears a robe, a symbol of the sun god around her neck, and a pickaxe on her belt. She is portly but not overly obese. She wears a Stetson hat to hide her balding. She has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: She was born in the south. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and she is greedy

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 800 gp. Bloodstone (50 gp). Red garnet (90 gp). Eye agate (15 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Halflings. Her skin is light but she possesses many grey ritualistic tattoos. She dresses in white turtlenecks beneath a grey coat with white slacks. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are blue.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She uses divination through singing.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Halflings became a terror of the countryside. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 900 gp. Red spinel (110 gp). Jet (110 gp). Star rose quartz (70 gp). Violet garnet (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.