Description: This woman wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her blonde hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this eastern gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She has worked as a Map Maker like her mother before her.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp).

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears a worn and beaten armor. He keeps his long silver hair kept up in a rat tail. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his arcane talents. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Insomniac, Insane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 10000 cp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He has a very tight haircut. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are violet.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with painting. He constantly tries to fill his life with painting. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Halflings.

History: Bhevek lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Courier and was forced into it by his family; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Family, Attractive. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 1000 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she is dressed in earthy colors with a tan and black handkerchief worn on her left side. Her blonde hair, when down, is lengthy. Her half smiles and gray eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Barrister arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her family was turned out during the war. She and her family wandered east to less war torn lands. She has dedicated herself to building a better kind of golem.

Motivation: She's attracted to the PC; and to settle down with her crush

Flaws: Addict, PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Rich, Has a crush. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 1100 sp. Obsidian (13 gp).

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing red cape and mantle trimmed with soft pastel waves gently in the breeze. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her fierce brown eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: This woman loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. She takes great joy in being the best Bowyer in town.

History: Lavinia was born in the west. At a young age she loved to build and create. Like her mother and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Bowyer. She became a Bowyer soon after.

Motivation: Expand her business; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic, Persistence. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 140 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp).

Description: He wears a black wide-brimmed hat and black clothes. His blonde hair is matted, messy, and big. His violet eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes drow are coming to abduct people. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: Hogar hails from a village terrorized by drow. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his psionic talents. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Dragonborn artifacts is his passion; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Enemies, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: She prefers to wear flannel. She carries with her a set of maces, each one with a jet on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her chestnut hair is matted, messy, and big. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. 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. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

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

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 2500 sp.

Description: He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times, and carries sais. His white hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are brown.

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 also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his father. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 160 gp. Jade (100 gp).

Description: An older woman who is wearing a tight brown one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape, she is not a threatening figure. Her black hair, when down, is lengthy. Her hazel eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. Oriff enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. When Oriff reached her early adolescence her Dwarf mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Poor, Military. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 330 gp.