Description: With white face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she dresses like a well dressed Ploughman does. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. She has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Dell embodies much of what other species detest in the Halflings. She constantly seizes attention wherever she goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. She likes to think of herself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her parents enrolled her in a Aristocrat school at a young age so that she could practice her psionic talents. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Ploughman.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and she has money and likes to spend it

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

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 500 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (16 gp). Black pearl (1500 gp). Rose (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This southern man wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty red coat over it. His clothes are grease stained in places. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy golden hair. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. Chay is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his mother. His first spouse was a Spice Merchant, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Brewer and was forced into it by his family; and to reunite with his absent mother

Flaws: Ugly, Terse. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears a green tunic with pastel highlights, and long violet pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her silver hair is still thick. Her eyes are black and beady.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Dilettante arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a husky woman, who very much looks the part of a Spice Merchant. Her red fur is smooth and relatively long. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She seeks to pay back kindness whenever she gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip she always seeks to do solids for her friends.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She has achieved small success as a Spice Merchant.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Justice, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 300 gp. Carnelian (30 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (10 gp). Red spinel (110 gp). Brown-green garnet (110 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged man is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His chestnut hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. 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. Some 3 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Vanuath never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Rich. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with top hat. His chestnut hair is heavily combed to the left. He has brown eyes and a tan hat with a grey feather.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Nutae grew up listening to his father's many stories. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy chestnut stubble. She likes to wear ponchos typically of a light violet in addition to tight pants. She has a hunchback. Her chestnut hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. Her brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Sarah was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Her mother was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She tends to her Ruler job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Enemies, Family, Job. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 40 pp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Banded mail.