Description: He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His white hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Riardon will drive conversation. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Riardon was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Riardon decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. Being a Butcher 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 is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Mentor, Criminal record. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 1500 gp. Sardonyx (80 gp). Hematite (7 gp). Blue sapphire (1400 gp). Chrysoberyl (130 gp). Iolite (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He prefers to wear red clothing when he does not wear armor. His hair is red and very short. His violet eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. He is an amazing painter.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Halfling conditions. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to drow demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and revenge

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Enemies, Family. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 8000 sp.

Description: An older woman who is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured, she is not a threatening figure. Her black hair is greasy and uncared for. Her brown eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Gifted, Justice, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 900 sp.

Description: She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. Her black hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. She has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Herbalist. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Griselda was born with her father's beautiful face. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She has recently attracted an admirer that believes she's playing hard to get.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Bonds: Rich, Job, Attractive, Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This slender woman stands about 5'10". She wears a brown tunic with white highlights, and long pastel pants that bunch up around her shoes. With bright chestnut hair. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Fletcher they were divorced and she won custody of their son. She worked as a Scribe, and she later adopted a second son.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life; and nothing but the best is good enough for her

Ideals: Gifted, Impeccable. Flaws: Depressed, Shy. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 4000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior, and a wedding ring on her left hand. Her gray fur is smooth and relatively long. She has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: She was born into a rich family. She has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent mother; and to unite with her brother

Ideals: Fighting, Passionate, Artistic. Bonds: In love, Rich, Family. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 200 gp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (500 gp).

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His white hair, when down, is lengthy. His eyes are green and catlike.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He can't help but pocket interesting objects he comes across

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his mother. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Jeweler.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and he wants to get laid

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. She has slicked back chestnut hair. Her gray eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: Tyna is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: Her druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. A few years later when the west 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 pay off her debts; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Extrovert, Gifted. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Immigrant, Debt. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 11000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: With brown face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She has golden hair. She has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She is ready at a moment's notice to give into her darker urges. She is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. She often ends up burning people alive in the fires she starts.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. 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. After months of barely getting by, Jasmine managed to ambush a major caravan with a load of valuables. Instantly wealthy, she made her way to the capital under a new identity.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 60000 cp. Coral (80 gp).