Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she wears a black shirt with thin yellow vertical stripes and white pants. Her purple hair is still thick. Her eyes are black and beady.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: She was born in the west. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Tieflings in the west were limited. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 900 gp. Aquamarine (1400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man tends to wear a brown poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His black hair is smooth and relatively long. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. 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: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Thorin grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Thorin. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

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

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Servant

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Blue quartz (15 gp). Aquamarine (1400 gp). Malachite (15 gp).

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears silk and lounges about seductively. She keeps her long brown hair kept up in a rat tail. This silver eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Barber but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: Prosperine was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the south, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the south for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way west. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 3000 sp. Deep green spinel (160 gp). Silver pearl (160 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This slender woman stands about 5'11". She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. Her blonde hair is smooth and relatively long. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 1000 cp. Red spinel (130 gp). 1 Breastplate.

Description: She wears yellow painted combat armor at almost all times. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with writing. She constantly tries to fill her life with writing. The war was a terrible time for her, and Sarah does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. Her mother was a soldier and died while she was still young. Sarah was left her mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She has never given up on her writing dream.

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

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Military, Religious. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 800 gp.