Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His moppish black hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His eyes are green and beady.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Cook born in the past three hundred years. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 6 years.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Flaws: Ugly, Selfish, Depressed. Bonds: Job, Slave. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: This light-skinned female wears a tan shirt with thin blue vertical stripes and green pants. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her long red hair reaches down to her waist. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Tippletoe was raised in a hard working conservative environment. In her 16th year, her parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Tippletoe alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Justice, Optimist. Bonds: Guardian, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears a tight fitting grey shirt and pants. His small hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His amber eyes dart from person to person.

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 submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He was raised in a forest tribe. Solomon abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 200 sp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp).

Description: Her right side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She is wearing a long, green, dusty cloak. Her white hair is lengthy. Her white eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She does not care much for physical appearances, nor does she care much for other people. She does however care about what she wants and getting it. She is a bit of a macho woman and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: She was born at the edge of vast desert. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She was granted druidic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: To end her boredom; and she seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Nature, Religious. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 100 pp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (100 gp).

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His orange fur is smooth and relatively long. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. The war was a terrible time for him, and Cloak does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Carter arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Cloak was born on a far southern plains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Carter. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He is greedy; and money/treasure

Flaws: Shy, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Carter

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 1600 gp. Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Alexandrite (200 gp). Silver pearl (140 gp). Jade (140 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.