Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Halflings. Her skin is light but she possesses many violet ritualistic tattoos. She wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. Her long blonde hair reaches down to her waist. She has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Portia grew up listening to her mother's many stories. Her parents enrolled her in a Warrior school at a young age so that she could practice her psionic talents. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and to protect her home

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Bonds: Adventurer, Guardian. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 4000 gp. Solid gold idol (1100 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1100 gp). Solid gold idol (1100 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (50 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman is typically in her Seamstress uniform, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her long black hair reaches down to her waist. She has gray eyes.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. 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: Grigi was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Like her mother and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Seamstress. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Seamstress.

Motivation: Expand her business; and to reunite with her absent mother

Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Job, In love, Family. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing grey cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze, marred by sweets. Her white hair is singed and shortened. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. Valida is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: Her arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her arcane abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: He wears a brown collared shirt and green pants. He accessorizes with a black scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly rapiers and sickles. His red hair is unkempt and raggedy. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. He has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 1500 gp. Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1100 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (900 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (70 gp).

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears a black tunic with green highlights, and long grey pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her hair, while still mostly red, has prominent grey streaks. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. 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, Azza is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 14 years.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and to end her boredom

Ideals: Persistence, Justice. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Guardian. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 8000 sp. Carved bone or ivory statuette (10 gp).

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears a tight fitting brown shirt and pants. She wears a feathered hat to cover her moderate length silver hair. Her gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. 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: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when orcs swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Her first spouse was a Shepherd, they had one daughter, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Flaws: Addict, Secretive. Bonds: Family, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 330 pp.

Description: Her left side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She dresses in grey turtlenecks beneath a red coat with black slacks. Her white hair is singed and shortened. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines hazel.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. A freak accident while working with her Healer father left her crippled. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

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

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 1400 sp.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. She has shaved her head bald. Her gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She hates giants. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: Agnes hails from a village terrorized by giants. She always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict, Forgetful. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: Banded agate (9 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a husky woman, who wears many layers of old clothing at all times. She wears a broad hat to cover her moderate length rusty crest. She has gold eyes and a green hat with a yellow feather.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. Her mother worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled mother and took her mother's old job. She has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Seamstress. She hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Has a crush, Family. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 30 gp.