Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears a white tunic with brown highlights, and long red pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her brown hair is braided into rings. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. 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, Alain is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and to be a carpenter again

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 700 gp. Brown-green garnet (90 gp). Citrine (40 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). Red spinel (90 gp).

Description: 3'3" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. Her red hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. She has brown eyes.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and she's in love

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Poor, Has a crush. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 1000 gp. Chalcedony (40 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1200 gp). Chrysoprase (40 gp). Deep blue spinel (1200 gp). Deep blue spinel (1200 gp).

Description: She is a physically imposing light-skinned woman. She wears a brown cloak and cross-gartered yellow stockings. Her brown hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. She worked as a nervous Sailor and found it very stressful. She bought a trident and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Expand her business; and balancing her hectic life and new sailor responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Thieves’ tools.

Description: This western woman wears tan robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a hammer, but if one is not available she will default to her crossbow. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She keeps her chestnut hair in a pixie cut. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: She was born in the west. Ielenia was born on a far western plains where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Bricklayer. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: A deep hatred of brigands; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Passionate, Logical. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 200 gp. 2 Antitoxin. 4 Thunderstones.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears tattered old clothes. His red hair is lengthy. His eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He is obsessed with his god.

History: Thorpe was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. He found a children's book about a Halfling Commoner who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 8000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man stands a little under 5'9" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears a white armored body suit, with a simple tan line shooting up and back down. His silver hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Merchant arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Nybarg was orphaned to a temple shortly after his birth. He was raised by the temple staff to care always for others above himself and to hold his god always in his heart. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged man prefers to wear red pants and tee shirts, and a wedding ring on his right hand. He sports a long auburn beard, and similarly colored long hair. He has violet eyes and a red hat with a white feather.

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 takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the west. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Halflings in Bucklal's homeland. Bucklal decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. Some 2 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Bucklal never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: In love, Nature, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 60 pp.