Description: This northern man is dressed in a clean violet cloak covering his clean studded leather. His clothes are grease stained in places. His moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: This northern woman wears a worn and beaten armor. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She has a very tight haircut. She has hazel eyes.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: The child of northern immigrants she idolized her mother. Because her mother participated in the massacre of their homeland, dire rats burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. She was preparing to flee to the north, but the outbreak of war prevented her and her father from journeying north to reunite her family. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: She wants revenge against dire rats.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 19000 cp. Amethyst (110 gp).

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. 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 red hair is long and unkept. Her hazel eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She has achieved small success as a Weaver.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: This northern man typically wears green cloth garments or leather armor. His clothes are grease stained in places. He wears a feathered hat to hide his balding. His eyes are likewise gold. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He has all his life been fascinated with poetry.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears silk and lounges about seductively. His beige fur is kept up in a ponytail inside a small hat. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and to unite with his sister

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Family. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: Amethyst (60 gp). Bloodstone (50 gp).

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a white vest and prefers pastel and brown shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down, and is pretty ugly. His long blonde hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He has a dull look in his blue eyes.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: A powerful slaver made him what he is. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He wears white painted combat armor at almost all times. He has a chestnut handlebar mustache and slicked back chestnut hair. His eyes are likewise green. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. In his 18th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Painter

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 400 gp. Jade (70 gp). Coral (70 gp).

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears dark leathers with embroidery. His auburn hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Human in existence. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Kody was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Kody liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He bought a sickle and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Mentor, Nature. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 80 gp. Lapis lazuli (16 gp).

Description: He very much looks the part of a Jeweler, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 6'10" when asserting himself. His white hair is unkempt and raggedy. His black eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He got into the Jeweler business at a young age. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 330 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.