Description: She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured, and she perpetually has her kukri ready. She wears her brown hair up in a very large beehive style do. This brown eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: Alice lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Expand her business; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 4000 gp. Chrysoprase (30 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp). Red spinel (140 gp). Black opal (900 gp). Blue star sapphire (900 gp). Star rose quartz (30 gp). Blue quartz (7 gp). Peridot (30 gp). White pearl (140 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She is well dressed, constantly wearing a grey suit, brown shirt, and pastel tie. She has wavy blonde hair. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. On top of that she is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to her employer will always come first she doesn't like to hit women.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Half-Orc artifacts is her passion.

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Poor, Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 5000 gp. Moonstone (70 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp). Rich purple corundum (700 gp). Onyx (70 gp). Smoky quartz (70 gp). Blue quartz (7 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). Citrine (70 gp). Deep green spinel (140 gp). Moss agate (7 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp). Peridot (70 gp). Rose (70 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (7 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp).

Description: Standing 3'11", this woman wears a brown shirt, with a black mid length skirt with black tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. Her blonde hair is wavy and long. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. She advanced relatively quickly due to her good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Bonds: Military, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 900 pp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (700 gp). A small bag of saffron. (30 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears a red costume with the symbols of his god on his torso. His hair is long and auburn with streaks of red, and is pulled back with small red clips. His beard is red, braided, and well cared for. His fierce blue eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Hobart hails from a village terrorized by drow. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the forest to a summer home near a ruined castle. He would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the forest due to the painful memories there. Hobart took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up falchion and armor he uses now. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by drow. Hobart was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the drow.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and revenge

Flaws: Insane, Selfish. Bonds: Enemies, Nature, Job. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 300 pp. Aquamarine (1400 gp). Bloodstone (30 gp). Peridot (30 gp). Jet (140 gp). Moss agate (6 gp). Deep green spinel (140 gp). Banded agate (6 gp). Freshwater pearl (6 gp). Hematite (6 gp). Brown-green garnet (140 gp). Jade (140 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She keeps her long black hair kept up in a rat tail. Her green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from her. She is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Halfling in existence. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the east were limited. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Justice, Logical. Bonds: Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 6000 gp. White opal (700 gp). Emerald (700 gp). Alexandrite (900 gp). Violet garnet (900 gp). Blue quartz (8 gp). Jet (160 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His white hair is singed and shortened. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is mildly Halfling supremacist, though he does not identify as such. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Halflings became a terror of the countryside. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Dwarven people.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Mortician

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

Possessions: 14000 gp. Solid gold idol (300 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1100 gp). Jeweled gold crown (5000 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (50 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (500 gp). Solid gold idol (300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (110 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (4000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (600 gp). Old masterpiece painting (600 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (110 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1100 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (4000 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (500 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 (50 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (110 gp). 1 Major magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright grey and tan, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems, and a wedding ring on her left hand. Her red hair is wavy and long. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady amber eyes.

Personality: Tordrid is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her singing with anyone who is interested.

History: Tordrid lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

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

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Rich, In love, Family. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 1600 pp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (700 gp). Gold music box (4000 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (6000 gp). 1 Medium magic item.