Description: He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. He wears a small hat to cover his moderate length white hair. His green eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Hugh grew up listening to his father's many stories. His parents were killed by brigands in a raid when he was still a young child. The brigands captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: He wants to get laid; and many brigands want him driven away

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Enemies, Has a crush. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She is typically in her Fisher uniform. She has no fur. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is a Fisher first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. Cask is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: Cask was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. Her first spouse was a Priest, they had one daughter, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Family, Poor. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: With tan face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: She got into the Sage business at a young age. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She has achieved small success as a Sage.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. She wears her auburn hair down. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: Born to a Dyer, her father struggled to pay the bills. 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 has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and retire the richest woman in the south

Ideals: Philantrophist, Justice, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 340 gp.

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she wears a white deerstalker hat and white clothes. She keeps her long brown hair kept up in a rat tail. Her eyes are amber and beady.

Personality: She is mildly Halfling supremacist, though she does not identify as such. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Sage hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes; and to be a tanner again

Ideals: Philantrophist, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized tan coat. Her white hair is cut short. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. 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: To end her boredom.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Fearful, Mundane. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. Her hair is long and chestnut with streaks of red, and is pulled back with small brown clips. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Yvonne is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. 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. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by illithids. Yvonne was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids.

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Addict, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: Her left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears a red armored body suit, with a simple yellow line shooting up and back down. Her moppish red hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Chenna embodies much of what other species detest in the Halflings. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: Chenna was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Sorcerer, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Sorcerer in service of a powerful lord somewhere. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). She wears a colorful flower in her auburn hair. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She is harsh and unforgiving.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. Through the years after Egelina was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Egelina's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 400 gp.