Description: An older man who wears silk and lounges about seductively, he is not a threatening figure. He has wavy brown hair. His eyes are likewise green.

Personality: He is a Gardener first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the north were limited. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Gardener for the past few years.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 40000 cp.

Description: This younger middle-aged man is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes., and a wedding ring on his right hand. He has red hair. His violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. 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: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and he desires power and/or immortality

Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she typically wears brown cloth garments or leather armor. She wears her black hair up. Her eyes are likewise green. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from her. She is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Dwarf in existence. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: Mardred was born the youngest of three triplets. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers; and to reunite with her absent mother

Ideals: Justice, Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Slave. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 1100 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp). Lapis lazuli (9 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy red stubble. She is wearing a long, blue, dusty cloak. She has a hunchback. Her hair is red and curly. Her eyes are likewise violet.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: When she was but 3 years old her parents immigrated from the south. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and she desires power and/or immortality

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Religious, Immigrant, Slave, Job. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 200 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (10 gp). Zircon (60 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (10 gp). Coral (80 gp).

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 4'1" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. She has dyed her greying blonde hair a little too much giving a sharp blonde color. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She is an amazing painter.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother 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 was granted psionic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; 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: Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Slave. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 370 gp.

Description: He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly greatswords and bastard swords. His golden hair is thinning but still full. This brown eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: Ar-Beka was born with his father's beautiful face. Before the accident, he was one of the most outspoken anti-Halfling activists. He was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Halfling doctor. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Halfling people; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Fearful, Racist. Bonds: Criminal record, Attractive. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 4000 gp. Freshwater pearl (6 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp). Eye agate (6 gp). Deep green spinel (60 gp). Obsidian (6 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). Blue star sapphire (1200 gp). Red spinel (60 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (6 gp). Banded agate (6 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). Coral (60 gp). Onyx (60 gp). Onyx (60 gp). Red spinel (60 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (6 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right hand, he is well dressed, constantly wearing a black suit, tan shirt, and white tie. His bronze crest is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his red eyes.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He takes great joy in being the best Brewer in town.

History: Vrondiss was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. A gifted student he started as a Roofer, but he got bored and became a Brewer. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 3 years.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Philantrophist, Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 1300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.