Description: He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with yellow lining and desert motifs. He is portly but not overly obese. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

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 terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Forgetful. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 30 pp. Deep blue spinel (1500 gp). Rhodochrosite (6 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). White pearl (130 gp).

Description: He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his glaive, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a rose on it. He sports a flattop hair cut. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are amber.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of goblins may trigger it at times.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Job, Enemies, Rich, Has a crush. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: An older woman who wears baggy tan pantaloons and a black scarf, she is not a threatening figure. She is bald on top and has large white tufts of hair around her ears. She has gray eyes.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. Further she is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Addict. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 3000 cp. Moonstone (20 gp). Freshwater pearl (11 gp). Golden yellow topaz (400 gp).

Description: She dresses like a well dressed Tanner does. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. Her chestnut hair is braided into rings. Her hazel eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is a Tanner first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. She graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. She advanced relatively quickly due to her good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and to find somewhere to settle down

Flaws: Impulsive, Mundane. Bonds: Job, Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 1000 gp.

Description: He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. He wears a colorful flower in his blonde hair. He has hazel eyes and a tan hat with a blue feather.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Ruler. He struck the Ruler job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He's in love; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Military, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 15000 cp. Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp).

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He is wearing a long, red cloak. He wears a deerstalker hat to cover his moderate length brown hair. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

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 a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Sage

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 900 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a pot bellied northern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears a simple black robe with grey stripes complete with hood. Her black hair is singed and shortened. Her eyes are likewise gray. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. As she has aged she has sought to do reparations for her actions as a youth. She is also making sure that her compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Volen was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Volen decided she wanted neither the life of her mother nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Ideals: Athletic, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 1100 gp. Peridot (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.