Description: Standing 5'6", this man wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. He wears a colorful flower in his white hair. His silver eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He uses divination through singing.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the forest to a summer home near a large cave. He would wander through that large cave and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the forest due to the painful memories there. Tethren took refuge in the large cave and found the beat up scythe and armor he uses now. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Family. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 5000 cp. Moss agate (4 gp).

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She is dressed in an above average manner. She has shaved her head bald. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, she's a very lovable idiot. She works hard and plays hard.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist, Fighting. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He tends to wear a large green jacket. His brass crest is thinning but still full. His red eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: He got into the Fortune-teller business at a young age. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Fortune-teller. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Halfling people; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Antagonistic, Racist. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies, Job, Rich. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 110 gp. Deep blue spinel (600 gp).

Description: Standing 4'8", this man dresses in tan turtlenecks beneath a black coat with yellow slacks. His auburn hair is singed and shortened. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Fearful, Addict. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: Jasper (80 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: He tends to wear a large blue jacket. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. His first spouse was a Mayor, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Professionalism, Fighting. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 200 sp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (130 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: He wears skinny pants and wears a tan and black robe with the hood down. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His chestnut hair and beard is wavy and long. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. He has all his life been fascinated with poetry.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by dire rats. Himo was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: Many dire rats want him driven away; and revenge

Ideals: Pacifist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 20 pp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (90 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her pickaxe with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her hair is white, silky, and of moderate length. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Bardryn was born on a far southern desert where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Doctor. She tends to her Doctor job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This slender man stands about 4'11". He is wearing a long, yellow cloak. He wears his auburn hair up in a very large beehive style do. His green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. His homeland was ravaged by war and he spent much of his life rebuilding it. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Flaws: Addict, Fearful, PTSD. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. Her red fur is thinning but still full. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She does not care much for physical appearances, nor does she care much for other people. She does however care about what she wants and getting it. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: She was raised in a desert tribe. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Joker, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 700 sp. Lapis lazuli (10 gp). 1 Everburning torch.