Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She dresses in green turtlenecks beneath a white coat with green slacks. She wears a deerstalker hat to cover her moderate length white hair. Her eyes are silver and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father; and to unite with her sister

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Bonds: Family, Military, Rich. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 50 gp. Obsidian (8 gp).

Description: She stands about 3'1" and wears a red vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her green leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her red boots flare out at the collars. Her left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. She has wavy brown hair. Her eyes are a pleasant brown.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Baker business.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: To protect her home.

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Guardian, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. He sports a flattop hair cut. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Mortician. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Paymon was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Mortician work with an outfit from a few towns over. Mortician work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 50 pp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1700 gp).

Description: He dresses well, wearing brown shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. He is portly but not overly obese. His hair is long and golden with streaks of blonde, and is pulled back with small brown clips. His beard is blonde, braided, and well cared for. He has violet eyes and a brown hat with a yellow feather.

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

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Justice, Professionalism, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Server

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 80 pp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: With grey face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Spy. His moppish white hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his brown eyes.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: He was born in a small plains village. 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 hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

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

Flaws: Mundane, Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Nature. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 500 gp. Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Star rose quartz (60 gp).

Description: This man is dressed in earthy colors with a pastel and tan handkerchief worn on his left side, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His black fur is braided into rings. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes drow are coming to abduct people. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Adventurer, Criminal record, Slave, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 120 pp. Moss agate (9 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears a tattered pair of loose blue pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. Her head has been shaved. Her eyes are a pleasant amber.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the west. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 600 gp.