Description: This southern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears an entirely blue suit with pastel socks and a vest with buckled shoes. Her brown hair is knotted and matted. Her brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes brigands are coming to abduct people. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Her parents were killed by brigands in a raid when she was still a young child. The brigands captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. She has never given up on her writing dream.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and she desires to right it.

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 1900 pp. A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (10 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (8000 gp). Jeweled gold crown (8000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Gold music box (1000 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (170 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1200 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (500 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Gold music box (1000 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (170 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1100 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is a pot bellied southern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with green lining and desert motifs. He has wavy red crest. His skin is flawless and his gold eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Zedaar was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 16000 gp. A necklace of small pink pearls (4000 gp). Jeweled anklet (2000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1200 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is typically in her Carpenter uniform. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. She has done her best to style her golden hair to look like a famous performer. Her blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way east. She has achieved small success as a Carpenter.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Fighting, Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 7000 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2800 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (130 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2800 gp).

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His dark red hair is knotted and matted. His eyes are likewise silver. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: This man loves music and to teach people music more than just about anything. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Leucis was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 5000 gp. Peridot (80 gp). Silver pearl (60 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Malachite (4 gp). Blue diamond (4000 gp). Black opal (900 gp). Amber (60 gp). Jet (60 gp). Sard (80 gp). Peridot (80 gp). Tourmaline (60 gp).

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her blonde hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her green eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with singing. She constantly tries to fill her life with singing. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Her father worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled father and took her father's old job. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 300 pp. Chalcedony (80 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (500 gp). Black opal (500 gp). Red-brown spinel (70 gp). Star rose quartz (80 gp). Malachite (16 gp). Pink pearl (70 gp). Brown-green garnet (70 gp). Brown-green garnet (70 gp). Sard (80 gp). Bloodstone (80 gp). Red-brown spinel (70 gp). Black star sapphire (500 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This malnourished woman tends to wear a large white jacket. Her head has been shaved. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Callie embodies much of what other species detest in the Halflings. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. 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. After a long history of fighting, Callie and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Lazy. Bonds: Poor, In love, Mentor. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 7000 gp. Fiery yellow corundum (1100 gp). Pink pearl (160 gp). Moonstone (40 gp). Smoky quartz (40 gp). Silver pearl (160 gp). Eye agate (6 gp). Jet (160 gp). Blue diamond (2000 gp). Lapis lazuli (6 gp). Deep blue spinel (1500 gp). Jasper (40 gp). Zircon (40 gp). Black star sapphire (1100 gp). Alexandrite (1500 gp). Azurite (6 gp). Amber (160 gp). Tourmaline (160 gp). Black pearl (1500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: The dark-skinned woman stands 4'10" and wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty grey coat over it. She wears her white hair up in a very large beehive style do. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Her mother was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and she feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Persistence, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Lazy. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 400 pp. Gold music box (3000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (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). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1600 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1800 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.