Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. She keeps her red hair in a pixie cut. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Xanaphia was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Xanaphia has worked very hard to control her curse. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Spy.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and expand her business

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Job, Mentor. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His long brown hair reaches down to his waist. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the east were limited. He struck the Bather job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: To be a Laborer again; and balancing his hectic life and new bather responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 100 gp. Alexandrite (600 gp). Red garnet (40 gp). Deep green spinel (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a tight fitting white shirt and pants. His black hair is singed and shortened. His blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insane. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 100 pp. Black star sapphire (1400 gp). Silver pearl (140 gp). Star ruby (1400 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This light-skinned male wears a tattered pair of loose tan pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His red hair is smooth and relatively long. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: He was raised in a island tribe. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Eberdeb 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 Eberdeb. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 300 sp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 5'5" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears a tattered pair of loose tan pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. She is bald on top and has large blonde tufts of hair around her ears. She has a dull look in her hazel eyes.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her music with anyone who is interested.

History: Thiala was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. She has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion.

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She wears a violet coat over a blue low-cut shirt, and a wide-brimmed hat upon her head. She carries with her a set of falchions on her belt, each one with a emerald on the hilt. Her tied-back hair is red. She has blue eyes.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Valanthe isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Half-Elven unity. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Half-Elven conditions. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: Half-Orc compassion; and to reunite with her absent father

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Flaws: Mundane, Racist. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: Bloodstone (30 gp).

Description: This woman wears a tattered pair of loose tan pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her silver hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Spice Merchant. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Born in the east her family was never financially stable. 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 has never given up on her singing dream.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Poor, Job, Criminal record, Mentor. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This western woman dresses well, wearing red shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She wears her brown hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Halflings.

History: The child of western immigrants she idolized her mother. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Gnomish compassion; and a strong sense of loyalty to gnomish people

Flaws: Disease, Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Sculptor. His brown hair is still thick. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Oppleby is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Sculptor arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His childhood dream was to be a Herbalist, but he was a colossal failure. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Philantrophist, Justice. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 400 gp. A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (80 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (40 gp). Jeweled gold crown (5000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (5000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (800 gp).