Description: He wears baggy red pantaloons and a violet scarf, and carries scimitars. His black hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: He has a good heart but also a terrible temper. He will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the west were limited. He was granted psionic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 100 gp. Black pearl (1500 gp).

Description: She is an average looking southern female in her early mid-life. She prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. Her scarlet crest is braided into rings. Her eyes are red and beady.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family In her youth she was part of a gang. She got caught, but did not rat out her comrades and served her time in prison. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Mayor and was forced into it by her family; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 18000 sp. Aquamarine (900 gp). Blue quartz (14 gp). Lapis lazuli (14 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His silver hair has been sun bleached extensively. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist, Impeccable. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 4000 gp. Violet garnet (1300 gp). Smoky quartz (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 6'6" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright black and grey, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. He has moderate length green crest. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He considers himself the perfect gentleman. He makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father 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. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Ghesh fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and money/treasure

Ideals: Impeccable, Optimist, Fighting. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 10000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears bulky brown painted plate armor. She wears a small hat to cover her moderate length brown hair. Her amber eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: A powerful slaver made her what she is. She worked as a nervous Marshal and found it very stressful. She's also a talented Healer, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

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: Disciplined. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Mentor, Criminal record. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 700 gp. Black pearl (800 gp). Chrysoprase (80 gp). Emerald (1500 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears skinny pants and wears a blue and green robe with the hood down. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Burgell lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and he has a crush on the local fortune-teller

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Selfish, Hedonist. Bonds: Family, Has a crush. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 600 pp. Eye agate (12 gp). Citrine (40 gp). Star rose quartz (40 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp). Deep green spinel (50 gp). Moonstone (40 gp). Coral (50 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). Pink pearl (50 gp). Silver pearl (50 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (12 gp). Rhodochrosite (12 gp).

Description: 3'1" and muscular, this eastern woman wears a robe, a symbol of the four houses of cards around her neck, and a lance on her belt. She has done her best to style her white hair to look like a famous performer. She has brown eyes and a tan hat with a brown feather.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Laborer who has hired her part-time. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Fearful, Disease. Bonds: Has a crush. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 12000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears a brown collared shirt and red pants. He accessorizes with a white scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. He has auburn hair. His eyes are hazel.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Dragonborn companion (his 'brother'). He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 1500 gp. Star rose quartz (50 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Blue quartz (14 gp). Jasper (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears dull tan sweaters, loose grey pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed falchion, just in case. His hair is black and curly. His amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Ostracized due to the divine powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Elves became a terror of the countryside. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Slave, Mentor, Family. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 2400 sp.