Description: He stands about 6'1" and wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. He keeps his silver crest in a flapper bob. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. 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: Azzakh hails from a village terrorized by brigands. In his 12th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: She prefers to wear red pants and tee shirts. She keeps her long black hair kept up in a rat tail. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Gynnie embodies much of what other species detest in the Halflings. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. Her white hair is matted, messy, and big. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: A powerful brothel owner made her what she is. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and she feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears a worn and beaten armor, and is pretty ugly. She wears a Stetson hat to cover her moderate length auburn hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, she's a very lovable idiot. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of illithids may trigger it at times.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. She has never given up on her dancing dream.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 100 gp. Eye agate (12 gp). Aquamarine (300 gp). Deep blue spinel (300 gp).

Description: This man wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized white coat. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His silver hair is knotted and matted. His hazel eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. 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: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While he appears to be a normal Halfling, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Hedonist, Insane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 140 pp. Obsidian (6 gp). Zircon (80 gp).