Description: He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He is portly but not overly obese. His moppish chestnut hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His eyes are gray and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He found a children's book about a Halfling Fighter who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and obtaining odd cultural gnomish artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Disciplined, Entrepeneur, Impeccable. Bonds: Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears white painted combat armor at almost all times. Her head has been shaved. Her gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the south were limited. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

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

Ideals: Professionalism, Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 1000 gp. Red spinel (120 gp). Alexandrite (1100 gp). Citrine (20 gp).

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. She has black crest. Her eyes are red and catlike.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She takes great joy in being the best Guard in town.

History: Jezean hails from a village terrorized by brigands. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Guard. She tends to her Guard job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and she desires to right it; and expand her business

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 3 Thunderstones. 4 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: This man likes to wear blue tank tops with pastel pants. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized opal on his right hand. He has done his best to style his black hair to look like a famous performer. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Elves.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Aust fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and halfling compassion

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy, Racist. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Masterwork Light wooden shield.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He has styled his chestnut hair well, parting it to the left. His eyes are likewise violet. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Krakhorn is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. A serious injury left his mother unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm mother. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it

Ideals: Extrovert, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Debt. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: Fiery yellow corundum (1600 gp).