Description: An older woman who dresses like a well dressed Courier does, she is not a threatening figure. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide her balding. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She hates giants. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. As she has aged she has sought to do reparations for her actions as a youth. She is also making sure that her compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: Ethereal hails from a village terrorized by giants. In her 11th year, her parents were killed by a giants raid, leaving Ethereal alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She struck the Courier job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 70 pp.

Description: He has a missing left arm. He dresses in blue turtlenecks beneath a yellow coat with blue slacks. His white hair is heavily combed to the left. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. The war was a terrible time for him, and Alston does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Gnomish conditions. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Halfling people; and to end his boredom

Flaws: Mundane, Depressed, Racist. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 9000 sp. Moss agate (11 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This late middle aged man wears white leather gloves, a white jacket, and tight pants and is in decent physical shape. He wears his auburn hair up. His hazel eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Wiggan will drive conversation. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: The child of a Sailor, who enjoyed hunting, Wiggan was taken on many hunting expeditions. After coming to the age of reason, Wiggan took it upon himself to study the martial arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Hunter.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and balancing his hectic life and new hunter responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Extrovert, Gifted. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 180 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She wears a fancy yellow dress. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. A freak accident while working with her Barber mother left her crippled. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Map Maker for the past few years.

Motivation: Expand her business; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Selfish, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 600 gp. Chrysoberyl (160 gp). Azurite (4 gp). Alexandrite (1100 gp). 1 Hourglass. 1 Masterwork manacles. 1 Spyglass.

Description: The dark-skinned woman stands 5'9" and tends to wear a large grey jacket. Her white hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Humans in the east were limited. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is content.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 3000 cp. Red-brown spinel (50 gp).