Description: She is lean but muscular and wears black robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a greatsword, but if one is not available she will default to her spear. She has dyed her greying brown hair a little too much giving a sharp brown color. Her eyes are red and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Phelaia is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: Born in the south to a Adventurer, Phelaia learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Adventurer for the past few years.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Flaws: Depressed, Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy white stubble. He wears dull grey sweaters, loose blue pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed flail, just in case. He has a hunchback. His hair is white and curly. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Born to a Marshal, his mother struggled to pay the bills. A freak accident while working with his Marshal mother left him crippled. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: This eastern man is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His clothes are grease stained in places. His red hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady violet eyes.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He has all his life been fascinated with painting.

History: Born in the east his family was never financially stable. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Shipwright and was forced into it by his family.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Shipwright

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

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he dresses in red turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with white slacks. His red hair is smooth and relatively long. His half smiles and brown eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Curran embodies much of what other species detest in the Halflings. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: When he was but 3 years old his parents immigrated from the south. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 8000 sp. Jasper (80 gp). Onyx (80 gp). Red garnet (90 gp). Alexandrite (1400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. She is physically well-built. She has done her best to style her blue hair to look like a famous performer. Her eyes are silver and catlike.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with dancing. She constantly tries to fill her life with dancing. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She has never given up on her dancing dream.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Religious. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This light-skinned male has a large blue mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his green robe. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His head has been shaved. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Weaver arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Weaver. He has achieved small success as a Weaver.

Motivation: To be a Tanner again; and he is greedy

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 3000 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (60 gp). Gold and ruby ring (12000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (60 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). Old masterpiece painting (800 gp). A small bag of saffron. (60 gp).

Description: This man stands a little under 5'5" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears a black coat over a brown low-cut shirt, and a feathered hat upon his head. He keeps his long purple hair kept up in a rat tail. He has a dull look in his gold eyes.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. 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: Born to a Animal Trainer, his mother struggled to pay the bills. 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. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Xappan fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and to unite with his brother

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Enemies, Poor, Mentor, Family. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 1500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He prefers to wear tan clothing when he does not wear armor. He carries a battered mace and tarnished sword as well. With a patchy black beard and wild black hair. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is an amazing painter.

History: He was born in a small desert village. His necromantic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. Some 9 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Tharivol never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature, In love, Adventurer. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This tall, slender man wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized yellow coat. His hair is chestnut and curly. His half smiles and gray eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this southern guy figured out how to best use his charms to convince people to do what he wants. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He was granted psionic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and nothing but the best is good enough for him

Ideals: Gifted, Impeccable. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 200 gp.