Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a white cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. His hair is short and brown. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. A true patriot, Ashgarn would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Military, Slave. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 4000 gp.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Halflings. His skin is dark but he possesses many grey ritualistic tattoos. He very much looks the part of a Scribe. He keeps his white hair in a pixie cut. He has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Tomi isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Halfling unity. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: Tomi lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He was taken from his home at a very young age. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Job, Family, Slave. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 6000 gp. Black pearl (1600 gp). Black pearl (1600 gp). White pearl (90 gp). Amethyst (90 gp). White pearl (90 gp). Freshwater pearl (13 gp). Chrysoberyl (90 gp). White pearl (90 gp). Sard (40 gp). Sard (40 gp). Black star sapphire (1300 gp). Citrine (40 gp). Eye agate (13 gp). Malachite (13 gp). Carnelian (40 gp). Pink pearl (90 gp). Azurite (13 gp). Malachite (13 gp). Jacinth (5000 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp).

Description: This late middle aged man is well dressed, constantly wearing a blue suit, brown shirt, and grey tie and is in decent physical shape. He is bald on top and has large white tufts of hair around his ears. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep brown.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Namfoodle was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Optimist, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 1400 pp. Silver comb with moonstones (900 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (150 gp). Jeweled anklet (4000 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (150 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp).

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a worn and beaten armor. His moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are violet.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this western guy figured out how to best use his charms to convince people to do what he wants. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Masseuse arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He found a children's book about a Gnome Druid 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. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature halberd.

Motivation: He made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Bonds: Attractive, Military, Rich, Adventurer, Debt. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 5000 gp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (50 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (4000 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (4000 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (900 gp). Solid gold idol (1100 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (900 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (90 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (4000 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (90 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (50 gp). Jeweled gold crown (2000 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy white stubble. He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a violet coat. He has a hunchback. His white hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Apothecary born in the past three hundred years. 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. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered south to less war torn lands. He was granted arcane powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, PTSD, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. Red garnet (120 gp). Alexandrite (1600 gp). Hematite (11 gp). Amber (120 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (600 gp). Aquamarine (1600 gp). Citrine (30 gp). Black pearl (1600 gp). Zircon (30 gp). Hematite (11 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His deerstalker hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His eyes are green and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is a Seamstress first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He was born at the edge of vast island. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand his business; and balancing his hectic life and new seamstress responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Nature, Mentor. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 9000 gp. Azurite (13 gp). Rhodochrosite (13 gp). Fire opal (1000 gp). Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). Black pearl (300 gp). Aquamarine (300 gp). Blue sapphire (1000 gp). Red spinel (120 gp). Onyx (20 gp). Moonstone (20 gp). Rhodochrosite (13 gp). Amber (120 gp). Rock crystal (20 gp).

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She very much looks the part of a Shepherd. Her white hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. In her 14th year, her parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Vorka alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Impulsive, Mundane. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 6000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.