Description: This late middle aged woman wears brown trousers with grey and brown striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts and is in decent physical shape. Her hair is silver, silky, and of moderate length. She is baby faced.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 70 gp. Obsidian (11 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her lavender fur is smooth and relatively long. Her blue eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this southern gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. 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 comes from a rich southern family. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and balancing her hectic life and new unemployed responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: Black opal (900 gp). Pink pearl (110 gp). Carnelian (40 gp).

Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and wears a yellow collared shirt and tan pants. He accessorizes with a yellow scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His hair is long and red with streaks of golden, and is pulled back with small yellow clips. His beard is golden, braided, and well cared for. His green eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He wears suspenders and pastel workpants. His shirt is grey, and he wears a heavy pastel leather apron most of the time. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He has gray fur. He has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Fragrant lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Family. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 1200 gp. Old masterpiece painting (500 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (50 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (90 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (90 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (400 gp). 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 brown fur is braided into rings. His amber eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He disdains his fellow northerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Spring fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man wears a black tunic with white highlights, and long grey pants that bunch up around his shoes, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He has wavy dark red hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his father. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered east to less war torn lands. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Flaws: Fearful, PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 1000 gp.

Description: She is dressed in a clean green cloak covering her clean studded leather. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. Her silver hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep white.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: She comes from a rich western family. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way north. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: To unite with her brother.

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Rich, Family. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: This man stands a little under 3'6" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His auburn hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Gnomes.

History: Born to a Roofer, his father struggled to pay the bills. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and a strong sense of loyalty to halfling people

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Racist. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 40000 cp. Hematite (4 gp). Peridot (30 gp). Black pearl (1000 gp). Rich purple corundum (900 gp).

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears suspenders and white workpants. His shirt is brown, and he wears a heavy white leather apron most of the time, and is pretty ugly. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are green.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the east were limited. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Flaws: Ugly, Greedy, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 11000 gp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (170 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp).