Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears silk and lounges about seductively. He has red hair. His skin is flawless and his violet eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this northern guy figured out how to best use his charms to convince people to do what he wants. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Halflings.

History: Bertram was born with his father's beautiful face. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Bertram has worked very hard to control his curse. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by dire rats. Bertram was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud.

Flaws: Racist, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 2300 gp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears dull brown sweaters, loose tan pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed halberd, just in case. She wears her auburn hair down. Her brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. The war was a terrible time for her, and Ermina does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Her mother was a soldier and died while she was still young. Ermina was left her mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Military. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: He wears a black shirt with thin yellow vertical stripes and green pants. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His eyes are hazel and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He dropped out of school to support his sick father, and resented it. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He wears light armors faded through time and improper care. He keeps his long chestnut hair kept up in a rat tail. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. A friendly and beautiful Elf, he is rarely seen without a few beauties around his arms. Though a playboy in all rights, he is no lame duck.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. After a long history of fighting, Carrie and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Terse, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: This tall, slender woman is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. Her red crest is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dragonborns became a terror of the countryside. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Cynical. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 2000 gp. Jeweled anklet (4000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp).