Description: This woman stands a little under 3'1" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She tends to wear a large blue jacket. She has wavy chestnut hair. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her hazel eyes.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Stableman work with an outfit from a few towns over. Stableman work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 120 gp. Silver ewer (50 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp).

Description: This woman is very fat, and tends to wear a large brown jacket. Her golden hair is still thick. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Fortune-teller who has hired her part-time. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: Born in the west to a Fortune-teller, Eva learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. 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. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Has a crush, Rich, Job, Mentor. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 8000 cp.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she prefers to wear flannel. Her blue hair is smooth and relatively long. Her eyes are a pleasant black.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with her old comrades. She has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: A child with a great deal of singing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Many dire rats want her driven away; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 23000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This western man is abnormally tall. He wears a robe, a symbol of the four houses of cards around his neck, and a spear on his belt. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His yellow fur is unkempt and raggedy. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He disdains his fellow westerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He was born in the west. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Poor. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: She wears a brown vest and prefers violet and blue shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Her silver hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing writing.

History: She was born into a rich family. A freak accident while working with her Mayor father left her crippled. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Depressed. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 300 gp. 4 Smokesticks. 2 Holy water.

Description: She wears tattered old clothes. She has no crest. Her eyes are a pleasant gold.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Apothecary arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 2000 cp. Red-brown spinel (160 gp).

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. Her red hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Siffress was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and she desires to right it; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Disease, Shy, Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: This late middle aged woman is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes. and is in decent physical shape. She sports blonde long hair. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. 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 hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 110 gp. Malachite (15 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This northern man is abnormally tall. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft white waves gently in the breeze. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He wears a colorful flower in his gold crest. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his red eyes.

Personality: He hates brigands. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. 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: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the north. Through the years after Mehen was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Mehen's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Many brigands want him driven away; and he's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 200 sp.