Description: This woman is very fat, and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her golden hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Painter work with an outfit from a few towns over. Painter work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Painter

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

Possessions: 400 pp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (150 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1000 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (70 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Jeweled anklet (4000 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. She sports white long hair. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She is content; and she feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Depressed, Disease, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 7000 gp. Silver pearl (80 gp). Black opal (700 gp). Obsidian (8 gp). Moonstone (70 gp). Rock crystal (70 gp). Azurite (8 gp). Moonstone (70 gp). Red garnet (80 gp). Pink pearl (80 gp). Rhodochrosite (8 gp). Deep blue spinel (400 gp). Brown-green garnet (80 gp).

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. His copper crest is greasy and uncared for. His red eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 400 pp. Black pearl (900 gp). Citrine (70 gp). Citrine (70 gp). Jet (160 gp). Jade (160 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a brown collared shirt and black pants. He accessorizes with a white scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his spear, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a clover on it. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his painting with anyone who is interested.

History: Aldous lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 6000 gp. Deep green spinel (70 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (14 gp). Eye agate (14 gp). Red-brown spinel (70 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This woman is typically in her Sage uniform, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her auburn hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Opinionated, Logical. Bonds: Job, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 5000 gp. Blue quartz (5 gp). Black pearl (400 gp). Freshwater pearl (5 gp). Blue quartz (5 gp). Moss agate (5 gp). Freshwater pearl (5 gp). Aquamarine (400 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her ceremonial dagger with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her silver crest is slicked back into a classic pompadour. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: When she was but 7 years old her parents immigrated from the north. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Immigrant. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She wears a white tunic with green highlights, and long brown pants that bunch up around her shoes. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her silver hair is knotted and matted. Her gray eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered dancing. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends.

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 12000 gp. Pink pearl (150 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Star rose quartz (30 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp). Citrine (30 gp). Hematite (6 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp). Bloodstone (30 gp). Rose (30 gp). Hematite (6 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp). 1 Medium magic item.