Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her dark red hair is long and unkept. Her red eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Armara grew up listening to her mother's many stories. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: Her skin is bronze and flawless. She wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. She is an epitome of beauty. Her hair, while still mostly white, has prominent grey streaks. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Flaws: Terse, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Immigrant. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 700 gp. Sapphire pendant on gold chain (500 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (400 gp).

Description: She tends to wear a yellow poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. She is portly but not overly obese. She keeps her long golden hair kept up in a rat tail. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Her divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. In her 12th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She was granted divine powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and to prove her worth to the world

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Impulsive, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: Hematite (14 gp). Black star sapphire (900 gp). Blue quartz (14 gp). Rhodochrosite (14 gp).

Description: A stocky darker skinned man, he wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with red lining and desert motifs. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His blue eyes are passionate and lively.

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 Halfling in existence. He disdains his fellow westerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the west. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He became a Herbalist soon after.

Motivation: He is content; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 3000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light tan in addition to tight pants. He carries a battered club and tarnished greatsword as well. He keeps his blonde hair in a flapper bob. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: He got into the Interpreter business at a young age. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and to clean up the streets

Ideals: Fighting, Passionate. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Adventurer, Guardian. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He wears a broad hat to hide his balding. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Mantus speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Through the years after Mantus was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Mantus's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 19000 cp. A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His auburn hair is long and unkept. His fierce brown eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. Zed was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Zed decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He's also a talented Tanner, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Slave, Criminal record. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 300 gp. Amber (50 gp). Black opal (1300 gp). Golden pearl (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.