Description: She wears long strands of topaz and short violet dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. She is portly but not overly obese. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Elysande lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She tends to her Miner job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Rich, Family, Job. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His hair is red, silky, and of moderate length. His half smiles and violet eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. 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: Thamior was born the youngest of three triplets. He 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. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He wants revenge against gnolls; and he desires power and/or immortality

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. Her hair is long and brown with streaks of black, and is pulled back with small black clips. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father 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 has never given up on her poetry dream.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Slave, Rich. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: She is a husky woman, who wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with brown colored cloaks and clothing. Her yellow fur, when down, is lengthy. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with painting. She constantly tries to fill her life with painting. On top of that she is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to her employer will always come first she doesn't like to hit women.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. She has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and she has a crush on the local engraver

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy white stubble. She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. She has a hunchback. Her white hair is wavy and long. Her eyes are likewise brown. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Halflings.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Halflings became a terror of the countryside. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by dire rats. Bree was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: She wants revenge against dire rats.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His hair is silver and curly. He is baby faced.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Henry hails from a village terrorized by illithids. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it; 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: Justice, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 2500 gp. Aquamarine (1600 gp). Moss agate (11 gp).

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She wears many layers of old clothing at all times. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her ears are large.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Nedda was born in the west. At a young age she loved to build and create. Nedda was born on a far western plains where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Mercenary. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal.

Ideals: Joker, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 400 gp. Fire opal (1200 gp). Blue star sapphire (1200 gp). Rose (40 gp).