Description: A 3'3" southern woman, she prefers to wear flannel. She keeps her red hair in a pixie cut. Her ears are large.

Personality: She considers herself the perfect lady. She makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. Veloptima is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her sisters into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: She was born at the edge of vast mountains. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and she feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Nature. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 40 gp. 1 Smokesticks.

Description: She wears dull red sweaters, loose grey pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed shortbow, just in case. She is portly but not overly obese. With bright black hair. Her hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, she's a very lovable idiot. 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: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. In her 15th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: This slender man stands about 6'2". He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. His black crest is knotted and matted. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Nykkan was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal.

Ideals: Professionalism, Opinionated. Bonds: Rich, Mentor, Criminal record. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 800 gp. Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp).

Description: She wears a black vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her blue leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her black boots flare out at the collars, and carries shortspears. She has gold crest. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. 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. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. After a long history of fighting, Savaran and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 10000 sp.

Description: She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing white cape and mantle trimmed with soft black waves gently in the breeze. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly falchions and halberds. Her hair, while still mostly chestnut, has prominent grey streaks. Her eyes are likewise amber. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She hates drow. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Butcher arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Ekk grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Ekk. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and retire the richest woman in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 1200 gp. Fire opal (500 gp). Citrine (20 gp).

Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He wears a tan vest and prefers green and tan shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His chestnut hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He has amber eyes and a tan hat with a green feather.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. As he has aged he has sought to do reparations for his actions as a youth. He is also making sure that his compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: He was born at the edge of vast plains. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: Freshwater pearl (16 gp).

Description: He is a pot bellied southern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He sports a flattop hair cut. His eyes are black.

Personality: He hates Tieflings with a passion. As such he is filled with self loathing. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Nicor has worked very hard to control his curse. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Nicor fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Halfling people.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Racist, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Dutch accent

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

Description: He wears skinny pants and wears a blue and yellow robe with the hood down. He carries with him a set of swords, each one with a amber on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His long golden hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this southern guy figured out how to best use his charms to convince people to do what he wants. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Eberdeb was born the youngest of three triplets. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He tends to his Armorer job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family, Nature. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 600 gp. 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. He has silver hair. His hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. While he appears to be a normal Halfling, 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 is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 35000 sp. Black pearl (800 gp).