Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a blue armored body suit, with a simple green line shooting up and back down. Her chestnut hair is braided into rings. Her hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She has dedicated herself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Religious, Adventurer. Occupation: Marshal

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

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Halflings. His skin is dark but he possesses many tan ritualistic tattoos. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized red coat. He wears his red hair down. He has a dull look in his violet eyes.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He has dedicated himself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and money/treasure

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich, Religious. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: This man wears a green tunic with violet highlights, and long white pants that bunch up around his shoes, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His gold crest is long and unkept. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the north. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: He is greedy; and obtaining odd cultural dwarven artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Courier, and a wedding ring on her left hand. Her chestnut hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She considers herself the perfect lady. She makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Halfling companion (her 'brother'). Some 2 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Vani never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: In love, Poor, Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 300 sp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (150 gp). 1 Simple lock.

Description: This fat eastern woman has a bulbous nose and is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft red waves gently in the breeze. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her long auburn hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her eyes are brown and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Lagazi lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Lagazi has worked very hard to control her curse. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and retire the richest woman in the east

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 12000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.