Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears a simple blue robe with brown stripes complete with hood. His silver hair is cut short. His gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Halimath is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Dilettante arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. Some 5 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Halimath never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Flaws: Disease, Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, In love. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 4000 gp. Hematite (5 gp). Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). Obsidian (5 gp). Golden pearl (50 gp). Red spinel (50 gp). Star rose quartz (70 gp). Blue sapphire (800 gp).

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. Her golden hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Mayor. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She worked as a nervous Mayor and found it very stressful. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Mayor.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister; and to pay off her debts

Bonds: Job, Family, Rich, Debt. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: This eastern woman prefers to wear black pants and tee shirts. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She wears her silver hair up. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she's in love

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: He wears a robe, a symbol of death around his neck, and a dagger on his belt. He carries with him a set of daggers on his belt, each one with a ruby on the hilt. His red hair is matted, messy, and big. His brown eyes peer out from beneath his Stetson red hat.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish, Shy. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: Onyx (40 gp). Bloodstone (40 gp).

Description: This woman is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized aquamarine on her right hand. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover her moderate length silver hair. Her blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with poetry. She constantly tries to fill her life with poetry. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: She comes from a rich western family. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. In the meantime she has taken over work as a Cartwright and occasionally as a mercenary.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend.

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 40 pp. Tourmaline (40 gp).

Description: This late middle aged man wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat and is in decent physical shape. He wears a feathered hat to cover his moderate length golden hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Gormogord isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Halfling unity. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Gormogord lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His divine abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister.

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 100 gp. Citrine (80 gp). Jet (160 gp). Emerald (500 gp). Freshwater pearl (7 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears brown painted combat armor at almost all times. He wears his golden hair up in a very large beehive style do. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. In his 12th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insane, Fearful. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 1000 sp.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He sports grey clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. He has styled his blonde hair well, parting it to the left. This amber eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Justice, Gifted, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: Tourmaline (110 gp).

Description: He stands about 6'9" and is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. He has styled his yellow fur well, parting it to the right. He has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is a Sailor first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Spring was born in the east. At a young age he loved to build and create. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. 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: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Logical, Persistence. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 40000 cp. Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp).