Description: This dark-skinned male is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His black hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His eyes are likewise green. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Howard embodies much of what other species detest in the Halflings. He works hard and plays hard.

History: The child of a Seamstress, who enjoyed hunting, Howard was taken on many hunting expeditions. 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 spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Flaws: Antagonistic, Hedonist, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This man wears a worn and beaten armor, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His silver hair is heavily combed to the left. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Carter for the past few years.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Impulsive, Forgetful. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Religious. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 30 pp. Eye agate (16 gp). Black pearl (800 gp). Tourmaline (60 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp).

Description: She wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. With bright silver hair. Her eyes are brown.

Personality: She considers herself the perfect lady. She makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

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. A gifted student she started as a Apothecary, but she got bored and became a Ploughman. She tends to her Ploughman job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and she doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 5000 gp. Embroidered and bejeweled glove (1000 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (140 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (1000 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (140 gp). Gold music box (1000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (700 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2400 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her silver crest is lengthy. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She fancies herself a trickster and likes to rely on her wits to carry the day. She cares for her older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Savaran grew up listening to her father's many stories. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Family, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 30 gp. Amber (110 gp).

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears professional attire. His chestnut hair is thinning but still full. His skin is flawless and his blue eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Oren is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Oren lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. 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 Cartwright. He tends to his Cartwright job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Cartwright and was forced into it by his family.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Job. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: This man wears bulky black painted plate armor. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His hair, while still mostly chestnut, has prominent grey streaks. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 72. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: He is a Lamia in disguise. His mother was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 1100 gp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (500 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (30 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She has a missing right leg. She is typically in her Blacksmith uniform. Her small hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her eyes are a pleasant hazel.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. Her childhood dream was to be a Gardener, but she was a colossal failure. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Blacksmith.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Blacksmith responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 500 gp. Black opal (700 gp). Freshwater pearl (4 gp).