Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears a tight fitting red shirt and pants. She has styled her red hair well, parting it to the right. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. 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: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. While she appears to be a normal Halfling, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Tawna fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and to protect her home

Ideals: Optimist, Fighting. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Guardian, In love. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: Rhodochrosite (14 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he prefers to wear flannel. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Crampernap was born with his mother's beautiful face. In his 11th year, his parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Crampernap alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Revenge; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He carries with him a set of flails on his belt, each one with a topaz on the hilt. His red hair is knotted and matted. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He considers himself the perfect gentleman. He makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He got into the Merchant business at a young age. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He tends to his Merchant job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Expand his business; and balancing his hectic life and new merchant responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable, Professionalism. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 240 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears suspenders and brown workpants. Her shirt is green, and she wears a heavy brown leather apron most of the time. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Melissa is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Disciplined, Justice. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She prefers to wear flannel. Her red hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her eyes are gold and beady.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: Born in the east her family was never financially stable. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 west. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers; and wants a kiss

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Has a crush, Poor, Family. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. Finely wrought small gold bracelet (30 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a husky woman, who wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with feathered hat. Her fur is short and cinnamon. Her yellow eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: She got into the Shepherd business at a young age. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Shepherd. She was granted divine powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 120 pp. Lapis lazuli (8 gp). Golden yellow topaz (200 gp). Jade (110 gp). Jade (110 gp). Brown-green garnet (110 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp). Chrysoberyl (110 gp).

Description: She wears a red cloak and cross-gartered grey stockings. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her violet eyes.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Detective. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 2000 sp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1000 gp). A small bag of saffron. (70 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (100 gp).

Description: He sports violet clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His golden hair has been sun bleached extensively. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He uses divination through singing.

History: He was born at the edge of vast plains. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Mercenary. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Mercenary for hire.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Mercenary responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 900 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. Sporting a black mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. While he appears to be a normal Gnome, 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. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

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

Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 130 gp.