Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. She has wavy brown hair. Her gray eyes peer out from beneath her wide-brimmed red hat.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She found a children's book about a Halfling Druid who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism, Logical. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 5000 gp. Rose (20 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Brown-green garnet (130 gp). Blue star sapphire (1000 gp). Freshwater pearl (14 gp). Golden pearl (130 gp). Hematite (14 gp). Rose (20 gp).

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty brown coat over it. Her brown hair is long and unkept. Her eyes are hazel and beady.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. 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: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Maynild was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Family, Mentor. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 18000 gp. A small bag of saffron. (10 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (500 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). Silver ewer (10 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (6000 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (60 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (10 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (10 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (10 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (60 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1200 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is a pot bellied eastern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He tends to wear a large brown jacket. His fur is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Shoemaker.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Athletic, Opinionated. Bonds: Family, Religious, Job, Slave. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 300 pp. Violet garnet (1100 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Zircon (20 gp). Blue quartz (8 gp). White pearl (140 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Star ruby (1100 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (8 gp). Violet garnet (1100 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp). Peridot (20 gp). Freshwater pearl (8 gp). Onyx (20 gp). Moonstone (20 gp). Aquamarine (1100 gp). Blue quartz (8 gp). Rose (20 gp). Onyx (20 gp). Alexandrite (1100 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Sard (20 gp). Lapis lazuli (8 gp). Rhodochrosite (8 gp). Moss agate (8 gp). Violet garnet (1100 gp). Sardonyx (20 gp). Deep green spinel (140 gp). Jasper (20 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (8 gp). Amethyst (140 gp).

Description: He wears violet leather gloves, a violet jacket, and tight pants. He sports a long golden beard, and similarly colored long hair. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Peren is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: Peren hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Stylist for hire.

Motivation: He is content; and expand his business

Ideals: Extrovert, Philantrophist. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 600 pp. Alexandrite (1300 gp). Alexandrite (1300 gp). Zircon (60 gp). Pink diamond (7000 gp). Chrysoberyl (40 gp). White pearl (40 gp). Moonstone (60 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Deep blue spinel (1300 gp).

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. He wears his auburn hair down. His hazel eyes peer out from beneath his feathered white hat.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. After coming to the age of reason, Golm took it upon himself to study the martial arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He was granted martial powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Insane, Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 20000 gp. Old masterpiece painting (500 gp). Old masterpiece painting (500 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (100 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1100 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1600 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (90 gp). 1 Major magic item.

Description: This slender man stands about 4'2". He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His moppish golden hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Painter. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. A gifted student he started as a Stylist, but he got bored and became a Painter. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Brottor fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

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

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Job, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: Red garnet (60 gp). Jade (60 gp). Red garnet (60 gp). Carnelian (60 gp). Sardonyx (60 gp). Carnelian (60 gp). Star ruby (1100 gp). Sard (60 gp). Rose (60 gp). Golden pearl (60 gp). Red-brown spinel (60 gp). Lapis lazuli (12 gp). Star rose quartz (60 gp). Chalcedony (60 gp). Lapis lazuli (12 gp). Deep green spinel (60 gp). Blue quartz (12 gp). White opal (1100 gp). Black pearl (1600 gp). Red garnet (60 gp). White opal (1100 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp). Deep green spinel (60 gp).

Description: She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She carries with her a set of scythes on her belt, each one with a topaz on the hilt. Her fur is red and very short. She has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. 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 has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 700 pp.