Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He has wavy copper crest. His gold eyes peer out from beneath his broad black hat.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Body Guard. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 11 years.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Military, Mentor. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 50 pp. Bloodstone (20 gp). Coral (130 gp).

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears bulky black painted plate armor. His blonde hair is matted, messy, and big. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady amber eyes.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: He comes from a rich western family. Before the accident, he was one of the most outspoken anti-Halfling activists. He was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Halfling doctor. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and a strong sense of loyalty to halfling people

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Racist. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This malnourished woman wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. 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: Nella was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. Being born in the south, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the south for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way north. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and to reunite with her absent mother

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Opinionated. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 11000 sp. Fire opal (1500 gp). Blue quartz (8 gp).

Description: A 2'9" northern woman, she wears an entirely red suit with green socks and a vest with buckled shoes. Her hair is white, silky, and of moderate length. Her eyes are amber.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Halflings.

History: Philomena was born with her father's beautiful face. Like her father and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Performer. She has achieved small success as a Performer.

Motivation: She wants to get laid; and expand her business

Flaws: Antagonistic, Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 17000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears light armors faded through time and improper care. She wears her black hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her amber eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: A powerful wizard made her what she is. Through the years after Mary was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Mary's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: To settle down with her crush.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 190 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp).

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears baggy black pantaloons and a blue scarf. Her rusty crest is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. She has gold eyes.

Personality: She loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from her. She is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Dragonborn in existence. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. She is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. She moved out north to avoid the crime she committed. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by illithids. Jaxi was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and revenge

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 10000 cp. Carnelian (50 gp). Alexandrite (900 gp). Alexandrite (900 gp). Lapis lazuli (15 gp).

Description: 5'8" and muscular, this northern woman is dressed in an above average manner. Her hair, while still mostly auburn, has prominent grey streaks. Her blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. She also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Shautha is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Shautha 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 Shautha. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Athletic, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 500 gp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (110 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (110 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Gold music box (1000 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item.