Description: This northern woman prefers to wear flannel. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She has shaved her head bald. Her hazel eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Verna grew up listening to her mother's many stories. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the north were limited. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 100 pp. Alexandrite (1100 gp). Citrine (80 gp). Star ruby (1100 gp). Jacinth (7000 gp). Black star sapphire (1100 gp). Banded agate (7 gp). Aquamarine (1100 gp). Eye agate (7 gp). Clear bright green emerald (7000 gp). Lapis lazuli (7 gp). Amber (70 gp). Chrysoprase (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears a black coat over a grey low-cut shirt, and a wide-brimmed hat upon his head. His white crest is thinning but still full. He has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 1400 gp. Azurite (16 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears baggy black pantaloons and a white scarf. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her sai, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a rose on it. She has moderate length bronze crest. Her fierce gold eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Her family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. She saw this and took pride in her father's willingness to do anything to win. She was granted arcane powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and balancing her hectic life and new carter responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 2000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He is wearing a long, grey, dusty cloak. His white hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. His eyes are likewise amber.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. In the meantime he has taken over work as a Interpreter and occasionally as a mercenary.

Motivation: Gnomish compassion; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich, Military, Job. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 110 gp. Sard (20 gp).

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She usually wears her brown robe and has her flail always slung over her shoulder. Her chestnut hair is well kept. Her eyes are violet.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when gnolls swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and she desires to right it; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Flaws: Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 30 gp. Moss agate (12 gp).

Description: She is a pot bellied southern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears dull white sweaters, loose blue pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed ceremonial dagger, just in case. Her red hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her eyes are likewise green. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She disdains her fellow southerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Trym was born with her father's beautiful face. Like her father and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Navigator. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Navigator for the past few years.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 5000 gp. Black pearl (1500 gp). Red-brown spinel (160 gp). Moss agate (12 gp). Deep blue spinel (1500 gp). Onyx (30 gp). Deep blue spinel (1500 gp). Violet garnet (1500 gp). Star rose quartz (30 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (12 gp). White pearl (160 gp). Black star sapphire (500 gp). Rhodochrosite (12 gp). Blue quartz (12 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp). Violet garnet (1500 gp).

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he typically wears pastel cloth garments or leather armor. His red fur is smooth and relatively long. His amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: He was raised in a plains tribe. A gifted student he started as a Junk Dealer, but he got bored and became a Mercenary. Some 8 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Sun never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Job, Nature, In love, Slave. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Silver ewer (90 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.