Description: He is in excellent shape and wears a tan shirt with thin black vertical stripes and blue pants. He has a very tight haircut. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Sailor for hire.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 900 sp.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. Her hair is golden and curly. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Shamil was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the east were limited. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Mentor, Immigrant. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 400 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (80 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). 1 Masterwork Light steel shield. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This northern woman is abnormally tall. She wears long strands of amber and short violet dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her hair is chestnut, silky, and of moderate length. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs.

Flaws: Addict, Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 1100 gp.

Description: An older woman who wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society, she is not a threatening figure. She wears a broad hat to hide her balding. She has red eyes and a black hat with a brown feather.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She is kind towards other women and children and will generally offer women help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to her.

History: Antrara was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Through the years after Antrara was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Antrara's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and she is greedy

Ideals: Persistence, Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 400 gp. 2 Smokesticks. 4 Acid flasks.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. Her cinnamon fur is kept up in a ponytail inside a small hat. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are green.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Her mother worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled mother and took her mother's old job. She has recently attracted an admirer that believes she's playing hard to get.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and she's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Has a crush. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 200 pp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy chestnut stubble. He wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with red colored cloaks and clothing. He has a hunchback. His chestnut hair is lengthy. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

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 is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Halflings.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Fulbar has worked very hard to control his curse. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Halfling compassion; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Ugly, Racist, Mundane, Disease. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Dyer. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. She has gray eyes and a red hat with a blue feather.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. Before the accident, she was one of the most outspoken anti-Halfling activists. She was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Halfling doctor. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Halfling people; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Opinionated, Philantrophist, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She tends to wear a red poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her moppish auburn hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. She cares deeply for her spouse and does her best to make sure her guests look presentable.

History: She was born at the edge of vast plains. Her mother took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Disciplined, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: In love, Nature. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 12000 cp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she is wearing a tight blue one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. Her blonde hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a Stetson hat. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep blue.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. 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 is a Yochlol in disguise. A gifted student she started as a Actor, but she got bored and became a Bricklayer. She tends to her Bricklayer job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 1400 gp. Solid gold idol (1200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.