Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with small hat. He wears his blonde hair up in a very large beehive style do. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He got into the Soapmaker business at a young age. Fargas abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Soapmaker.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 8000 sp.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears a tattered pair of loose brown pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. Her black hair is long and unkept. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady brown eyes.

Personality: She is witty, but her monotone delivery comes off as unnerving She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: The child of eastern immigrants she idolized her father. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Red-brown spinel (90 gp). Rock crystal (50 gp).

Description: She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. She is portly but not overly obese. She has wavy chestnut hair. She has amber eyes.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Naivara grew up listening to her mother's many stories. Her parents enrolled her in a Monk school at a young age so that she could practice her psionic talents. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Halfling artifacts is her passion.

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 60 pp.

Description: A 4'4" eastern man, he wears silk and lounges about seductively. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Human culture. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of gnolls may trigger it at times.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 north. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Healer they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Mayor, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. His crest is white and curly. His eyes are a pleasant gold.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Actor. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: Born in the west to a Actor, Hirrathak learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Slave, Has a crush. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: Tourmaline (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears brown robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a lance, but if one is not available she will default to her trident. Her black hair is long and unkept. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing poetry.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Bowyer arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. She has never given up on her poetry dream.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 3'2" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He is wearing a long, tan cloak. His moppish black hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He wears a mask on his face.

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. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. Being a Scribe kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and he wants revenge against gnolls

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Job, Rich, Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 1700 sp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: Standing 6'2", this woman wears a brown armored body suit, with a simple green line shooting up and back down. Her cinnamon fur is long and unkept. Her eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Tree 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 Tree. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture; and 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: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Scratchy, weak

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

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His red hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Jak's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. 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: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. While he appears to be a normal Halfling, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Jak fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Impeccable. Flaws: Insane. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Banded mail.