Description: This late middle aged woman wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge and is in decent physical shape. Her moppish auburn hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her eyes are likewise amber. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She hates giants. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. 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, Nissa is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. When Nissa reached her early adolescence her Gnome mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and many giants want her driven away

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Military, Job. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a brown coat over a white low-cut shirt, and a feathered hat upon her head. She carries a battered kukri and tarnished ceremonial dagger as well. Her hair is auburn and curly. Her eyes are green and beady.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Dagnal will drive conversation. She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: She was born in the east. She moved out west to avoid the crime she committed. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Dagnal fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 1100 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears bulky brown painted plate armor. She wears her black hair down. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. A freak accident while working with her Locksmith mother left her crippled. She has never given up on her dancing dream.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Shy, Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: A 3'0" southern man, he is wearing a long, white, dusty cloak. He keeps his long auburn hair kept up in a rat tail. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Bucklal isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Halfling unity. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: Bucklal was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac.

Ideals: Impeccable, Optimist. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 260 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. He is portly but not overly obese. His silver hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He has amber eyes and a black hat with a red feather.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Passionate, Logical. Flaws: Impulsive, Insane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears brown leather gloves, a brown jacket, and tight pants. He has moderate length red fur. His yellow eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. 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's repulsed by the PC; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This eastern woman wears a simple grey robe with black stripes complete with hood. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She has shaved her head bald. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Interpreter responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 40 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears a worn and beaten armor. He has silver hair. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines amber.

Personality: This man loves music and to teach people music more than just about anything. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Eiravel has worked very hard to control his curse. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful, Disease. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body, and carries sais. He has dyed his greying golden hair a little too much giving a sharp golden color. His amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of dire rats may trigger it at times.

History: Az-Bror was raised in a hard working conservative environment. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and to be a bowyer again

Ideals: Fighting, Passionate. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 100 gp.