Description: A plain young-adult woman, she prefers to wear flannel. Her silver hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Halflings in Pennie's homeland. Pennie decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 15 years.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Slave, Immigrant. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 180 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This late middle aged man wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition and is in decent physical shape. His white hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a card scrunchie. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his violet eyes.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Passionate, Justice, Fighting. Bonds: Poor, Attractive. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 400 sp. Deep blue spinel (700 gp).

Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He has a long black beard with little hanging trinkets. He has blue eyes and a white hat with a green feather.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Vilberg was born in the east. At a young age he loved to build and create. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, he put together a working one.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down.

Ideals: Pacifist, Persistence, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This malnourished woman is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. Her hair is red and curly. Her silver eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. As she has aged she has sought to do reparations for her actions as a youth. She is also making sure that her compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family She moved out east to avoid the crime she committed. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He dresses like a well dressed Slave Trader does. He has a very tight haircut. His half smiles and hazel eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the north. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He's also a talented Shepherd, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Halfling artifacts is his passion.

Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Attractive, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left leg, he wears dark leathers with embroidery. He keeps his long brown hair kept up in a rat tail. His eyes are brown.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. His first spouse was a Herbalist, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 400 gp. Rhodochrosite (16 gp). Hematite (16 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a mite stocky and dresses in tan turtlenecks beneath a yellow coat with blue slacks. His blonde hair is long and unkept. This brown eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. Soveliss was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Soveliss decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He became a Bather soon after.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich, Job. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 400 gp. Chrysoberyl (100 gp). Sard (40 gp).

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. She wears a green wide-brimmed hat and green clothes. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her brown hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are red.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Shepherd who has hired her part-time. She constantly seizes attention wherever she goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. She likes to think of herself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. She was taken from her home at a very young age. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Slave, Poor, Has a crush. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears green painted combat armor at almost all times. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. She keeps her long blue crest kept up in a rat tail. Her fierce gold eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Savaran was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. 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 is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and wants a kiss

Flaws: Insane, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 370 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.