Description: This fat western woman has a bulbous nose and wears a brown tunic with green highlights, and long grey pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. She wears a feathered hat to hide her balding. Her eyes are likewise brown. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Dwarves.

History: Her druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Ostracized due to the druidic powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dwarves became a terror of the countryside. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and halfling compassion

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 360 pp. Red garnet (60 gp). Aquamarine (1100 gp). Aquamarine (1100 gp). Banded agate (14 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (700 gp). Banded agate (14 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This late middle aged man wears rags and sports a simple walking cane and is in decent physical shape. His black hair is still thick. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way east. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: She wears a white tunic with tan highlights, and long blue pants that bunch up around her shoes. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her head has been shaved. Her eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Gifted from a young age, Kansif studied abroad. Her druidic abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 200 gp. Deep green spinel (130 gp). Coral (130 gp).

Description: He wears a white shirt, with a black mid length shorts with black tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His black hair is heavily combed to the left. His fierce violet eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: Curran was born the youngest of three triplets. He has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Family. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 200 gp. Deep blue spinel (1200 gp).

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. His golden hair is greasy and uncared for. His hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Oskar was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered poetry. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he is greedy

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Mentor, Rich. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 1000 sp.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. She has dyed her greying brown hair a little too much giving a sharp brown color. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Barber. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: Seeks redemption.

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Job, Slave, Criminal record. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 1900 gp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (700 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1600 gp). Jeweled gold crown (2000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His auburn hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His blue eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He worked as a nervous Blacksmith and found it very stressful. He struck the Blacksmith job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Military, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: 6'6" and muscular, this southern woman wears baggy green pantaloons and a pastel scarf. She has dyed her greying brass crest a little too much giving a sharp brass color. Her half smiles and red eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She is an amazing painter.

History: Jezean was raised in a hard working conservative environment. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Spice Merchant for the past few years.

Motivation: To be a Stylist again.

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 400 pp. Alexandrite (500 gp). Smoky quartz (70 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp). Star rose quartz (70 gp). Zircon (70 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Star rose quartz (70 gp). Hematite (15 gp). Aquamarine (500 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. She wears a tattered pair of loose white pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs, marred by sweets. Her hair is silver and very short. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Born to a Guard, her mother struggled to pay the bills. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is her passion; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Server

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 200 gp. Zircon (60 gp). Black pearl (500 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item.