Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears a brown vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her grey leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her brown boots flare out at the collars. Her red fur has been sun bleached extensively. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the island to a summer home near a old dungeon. She would wander through that old dungeon and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and she was stranded inside. Her family spent the next few days looking for her, and could only assume she was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the island due to the painful memories there. Emerald took refuge in the old dungeon and found the beat up sickle and armor she uses now. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Nature, Family. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 800 gp. Bloodstone (20 gp). Rhodochrosite (8 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His hair is blue, silky, and of moderate length. He has black eyes and a black hat with a violet feather.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Timid voice

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

Description: This western woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears a brown shirt with thin pastel vertical stripes and grey pants. Her brown hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Scribe arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Emotional. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 110 pp.

Description: This slender man stands about 5'1". He typically wears grey cloth garments or leather armor. His silver hair is thinning but still full. His gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He struck the Unemployed job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he dresses well, wearing blue shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. His blonde hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is mildly Elf supremacist, though he does not identify as such. To his fellows he 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: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. His first spouse was a Sculptor, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Azaki was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud.

Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Nature, Family. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 1100 gp. Black opal (700 gp).

Description: He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. With a patchy black beard and wild black hair. His amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. After a long history of fighting, Raer and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and to unite with his brother

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Guardian, Rich, Family. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 11000 cp. Emerald (900 gp). Star rose quartz (30 gp). Jet (160 gp). Moss agate (7 gp). 1 Banded mail. 1 Breastplate. 1 Masterwork Heavy wooden shield. 1 Masterwork Light steel shield.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears silk and lounges about seductively. He keeps his brown hair in a flapper bob. His green eyes peer out from beneath his deerstalker red hat.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. The war was a terrible time for him, and Osco does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Osco was born with his mother's beautiful face. He found a children's book about a Halfling Expert who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

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

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears dull black sweaters, loose pastel pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed morningstar, just in case. He carries with him a set of morningstars, each one with a topaz on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. He has wavy black hair. He has black eyes.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Zepar liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Ploughman for the past few years.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature, Job. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 9000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: With violet face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he is dressed in earthy colors with a white and pastel handkerchief worn on his right side. He has a very tight haircut. His amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Chay embodies much of what other species detest in the Halflings. He seeks to pay back kindness whenever he gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip he always seeks to do solids for his friends.

History: He was born in a small forest village. 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 Baker. He bought a sword and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: To be a Map Maker again; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature, Job, Religious. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 11000 gp. Golden pearl (110 gp). Red spinel (110 gp). Rich purple corundum (1000 gp). Blue sapphire (1000 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.