Description: This younger middle-aged woman is dressed in earthy colors with a red and tan handkerchief worn on her left side, and a wedding ring on her left hand. Sporting a brown mohawk this woman's hair draws a lot of attention. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Pennie isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Halfling unity. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage son.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: In love, Family, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She is wearing a tight black one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. She has no hair. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: The child of eastern immigrants she idolized her father. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: An older woman who wears a brown shirt with thin red vertical stripes and tan pants, she is not a threatening figure. Her moppish silver hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Her arcane abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and obtaining odd cultural gnomish artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Philantrophist, Professionalism, Gifted. Bonds: Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 190 gp.

Description: This man is renowned for his bright pastel suits and hats, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His gray fur is singed and shortened. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Three 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 Three. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish, Disease. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 1300 gp. Finely wrought small gold bracelet (70 gp).

Description: She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 3'5" when asserting herself. She has auburn hair. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Dilettante born in the past three hundred years. She takes great joy in being the best Dilettante in town.

History: She comes from a rich eastern family. Through the years after Quilla was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Quilla's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and to be a tanner again

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 9000 cp. 1 Masterwork Musical instrument. 1 Magnifying glass.