Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. Her white hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a butterfly scrunchie. Her fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: She got into the Mason business at a young age. When the war came and ruined her parents she was left adrift. She was a hard woman then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. She has taken up work as a Mason and fed both sides of the war false information with the goal of increasing casualties.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Fearful, PTSD. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. Her brown hair, when down, is lengthy. Her gray eyes peer out from beneath her wide-brimmed yellow hat.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when gnolls swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. She found a children's book about a Half-Elf Sorcerer who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Halfling artifacts is her passion; and she loathes her own lifestyle

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Enemies, Religious, Adventurer. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 400 gp. Alexandrite (1100 gp). 8 Acid flasks. 2 Antitoxin. 2 Holy water.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She has the majority of her body covered in plate. She has no fur. Her copper eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Cask is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, she was no stranger to responsibility. In her 20th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs.

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Fearful. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 400 gp. Moss agate (5 gp). Red garnet (130 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He wears dark leathers with embroidery. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His tied-back hair is silver. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Hobart is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Philantrophist, Justice. Bonds: Slave, Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Actor

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

Possessions: 300 gp. Deep blue spinel (300 gp). Chalcedony (40 gp).

Description: She is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. Her brown hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her violet eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the west. Her parents enrolled her in a Cleric school at a young age so that she could practice her martial talents. She was granted martial powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and she would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Disciplined, Professionalism, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 300 pp. Alexandrite (1500 gp). Sard (60 gp). Zircon (60 gp).