Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She is well dressed, constantly wearing a green suit, black shirt, and blue tie. Her blue crest is long and unkept. Her eyes are likewise gold.

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. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the west. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He is a husky man, who wears just a red suit. His auburn hair is still thick. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Born to a Detective, his mother struggled to pay the bills. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. Recently the stress of being a Unemployed has made it difficult for him to sleep.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Poor, Job. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 8000 cp. Jasper (50 gp). Red-brown spinel (150 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). 3 Holy water.

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears a fancy blue suit. His chestnut hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Aelar is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He moved out east to avoid the crime he committed. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Passionate, Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 30 pp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she wears skinny pants and wears a brown and tan robe with the hood down. Her black hair is knotted and matted. Her half smiles and brown eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: Beatrice hails from a village terrorized by illithids. Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by illithids. Beatrice was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it.

Flaws: Antagonistic, PTSD, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This dark-skinned male wears silk and lounges about seductively. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His fierce green eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Seamstress who has hired him part-time. 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: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father.

Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Adventurer, Military, Family. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Masterwork Musical instrument. 1 Masterwork Musical instrument. 1 Average lock.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy chestnut stubble. He is dressed in a clean green cloak covering his clean studded leather. He has a hunchback. He has no hair. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Halfling culture. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Leucis has worked very hard to control his curse. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Halfling people; and to unite with his brother

Flaws: Ugly, Racist, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: She is an average looking western female in her early mid-life. She wears a blue tunic with grey highlights, and long brown pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her golden hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her eyes are likewise gray. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Pyntle isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Gnomish unity. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Dyer work with an outfit from a few towns over. Dyer 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 working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Spy. She hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and expand her business

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Rich, Job. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 370 gp. Azurite (9 gp). 1 Healer’s kit.

Description: A 5'1" northern woman, she is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Bookbinder. Her golden hair is braided into rings. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: She was born in a small desert village. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and balancing her hectic life and new bookbinder responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 150 gp. Jade (130 gp).

Description: This light-skinned female is dressed in an above average manner. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. She has a dull look in her brown eyes.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation she is generally quite perceptive. She notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. When the war came and ruined her parents she was left adrift. She was a hard woman then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Insomniac, PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 160 gp.