Description: This man wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His silver hair is braided into rings. His ears are large.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Gildmak isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Halfling unity. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. After a long history of fighting, Gildmak and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 800 pp. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull brown iron scale mail. Her moppish white hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

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 skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: Baggi lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. 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 remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and regain custody of her son

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Addict, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Miner

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

Possessions: 1000 gp. Carnelian (60 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp). Iolite (60 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. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This light-skinned male wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. He has a golden handlebar mustache and slicked back golden hair. His hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. When Elaim reached his early adolescence his Dwarf father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Revenge; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Addict, Forgetful. Bonds: Poor, Military, Enemies. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 1100 pp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1800 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp).

Description: He wears long strands of ruby and short red dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. He carries with him a set of bastard swords on his belt, each one with a ruby on the hilt. His golden hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Carter arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. A freak accident while working with his Tanner mother left him crippled. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined, Joker. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: Onyx (60 gp). Banded agate (9 gp). Malachite (9 gp). Moonstone (60 gp). Golden yellow topaz (500 gp). Golden yellow topaz (500 gp). Amber (150 gp). Rich purple corundum (500 gp). Blue star sapphire (500 gp). Golden yellow topaz (500 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). Rhodochrosite (9 gp). Black pearl (500 gp). Deep green spinel (150 gp). Star rose quartz (60 gp). Onyx (60 gp). Blue sapphire (500 gp). Citrine (60 gp). Rhodochrosite (9 gp). Deep green spinel (150 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Brown-green garnet (150 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). Aquamarine (500 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He stands about 6'2" and is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. He has silver hair. His eyes are brown and beady.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He disdains his fellow southerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Ghâm was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and balancing his hectic life and new engraver responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 6000 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (1000 gp). Jeweled gold crown (8000 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1400 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (8000 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (40 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (40 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (80 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (40 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (80 gp). Solid gold idol (700 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (40 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears a worn and beaten armor, and he perpetually has his sickle ready. His auburn hair is heavily combed to the left. His green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Gorgûm fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined, Entrepeneur, Artistic. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. Solid gold idol (800 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 (40 gp). Jeweled anklet (3000 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing grey cape and mantle trimmed with soft green waves gently in the breeze. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her morningstar, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a rose on it. With wild white hair. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is a hateful person. She taunts others and blames them for her problems. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: She was born in the east, but her parents moved at a very young age to the west. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp).