Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears an entirely white suit with black socks and a vest with buckled shoes. His white hair is lengthy. His eyes are likewise amber.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Server

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 400 gp. Red spinel (80 gp). Black opal (800 gp). Jade (80 gp).

Description: Standing 6'4", this woman wears a pastel shirt with thin brown vertical stripes and pastel pants. Her lavender fur is still thick. Her copper eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. She takes great joy in being the best Mayor in town.

History: Born in the west to a Mayor, Harvest learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Job, Religious, Rich. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 40 pp. Rose (60 gp). Moonstone (60 gp).

Description: He tends to wear a green poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He wears his silver hair down. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Akmen will drive conversation. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was born in a small desert village. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Extrovert, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 8000 cp. Jasper (50 gp). Zircon (50 gp). Amber (130 gp).

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she tends to wear a large yellow jacket. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her ears are large.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Shoemaker for hire.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and money/treasure

Ideals: Logical, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Rich. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He wears blue painted combat armor at almost all times. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His small hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 37. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Adran grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Adran. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he prefers to wear white clothing when he does not wear armor. His blonde hair is long and unkept. He has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Vlorn embodies much of what other species detest in the Halflings. He works hard and plays hard.

History: He was born at the edge of vast mountains. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Nature, Family, Job. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 17000 sp. A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (60 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (3000 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (900 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This northern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He is typically in his Soapmaker uniform. His auburn hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a clover scrunchie. His eyes are amber and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 12 years.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 2000 gp. Chrysoberyl (90 gp). Red garnet (90 gp). Blue quartz (4 gp). 1 Medium magic item.