Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. She has done her best to style her chestnut hair to look like a famous performer. Her eyes are likewise violet. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

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. Her family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. She saw this and took pride in her father's willingness to do anything to win. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears silk and lounges about seductively. She keeps her blonde hair in a flapper bob. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She uses divination through singing.

History: Bendoo was born the youngest of three triplets. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: To unite with her brother.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 6000 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (70 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1900 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (70 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (70 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (70 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (300 gp).

Description: He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Carter. He keeps his long black fur kept up in a rat tail. He has copper eyes and a pastel hat with a white feather.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Tree was born on a far northern island where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Carter. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter.

Ideals: Justice, Professionalism. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 2000 pp. Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (100 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (10 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (100 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (10 gp). A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (10 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp). Old masterpiece painting (400 gp). Gold cup set with emeralds (3000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (400 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1200 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (100 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1200 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (400 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (400 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Jeweled anklet (3000 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she is dressed in a clean white cloak covering her clean studded leather. Her brown hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. She has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: She hates Halflings with a passion. As such she is filled with self loathing. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: She was born into a rich family. Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. She became a Ruler soon after.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and she is greedy

Flaws: Racist, PTSD. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 17000 sp. Iolite (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He keeps his black hair in a pixie cut. His amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. When Manfred reached his early adolescence his Half-Elf mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by goblins, and he desires to right it; and revenge

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Depressed, Shy. Bonds: Military, Enemies. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 8000 sp. Red garnet (90 gp).

Description: He prefers to wear flannel. He is portly but not overly obese. He has red hair. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Thorpe isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Halfling unity. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Thorpe 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 Thorpe. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and he wants revenge against dire rats

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Bonds: Criminal record, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 5000 sp. Deep green spinel (100 gp). White opal (500 gp). Alexandrite (1400 gp). Red spinel (100 gp).

Description: She wears pastel trousers with tan and blue striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 5'4" when asserting herself. Her lavender fur is slicked back into a classic pompadour. She wears an eyepatch.

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 is a great chef.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. After coming to the age of reason, Serpent took it upon herself to study the divine arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and wants her loneliness to end

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her falchion with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 4'10" when asserting herself. Her silver hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. Her half smiles and hazel eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 94. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. A true patriot, Phann would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: Born in the south her family was never financially stable. Her mother was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Poor. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: An older man who wears long strands of emerald and short red dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths, he is not a threatening figure. He has wavy golden hair. His amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: He was born in a small mountains village. His parents enrolled him in a Cleric school at a young age so that he could practice his martial talents. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

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

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Minor magic item.