Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, 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 crest, while still mostly gold, has prominent grey streaks. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: When she was but 3 years old her parents immigrated from the east. Megren liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. 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 has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 60 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This western woman wears a fancy blue dress. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She has dyed her greying silver hair a little too much giving a sharp silver color. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the west were limited. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 130 gp. Rose (80 gp).

Description: She wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body, and she perpetually has her whip ready. Her brown fur is lengthy. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Ruler. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: Edge was born the youngest of three triplets. She worked as a nervous Ruler and found it very stressful. She has achieved small success as a Ruler.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and balancing her hectic life and new ruler responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Family, Military. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 500 sp. 1 Masterwork Light wooden shield.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He tends to wear a large brown jacket. He has a very tight haircut. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

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. Vonbin enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Ostracized due to the divine powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dwarves became a terror of the countryside. He was granted divine powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and money/treasure

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has a long golden beard with little hanging trinkets. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Through the years after Paelias was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Paelias's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Paelias and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Disciplined, Extrovert. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: This slender man stands about 2'11". He prefers to wear white pants and tee shirts. He has done his best to style his black hair to look like a famous performer. His half smiles and violet eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Miner hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Poor. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty white coat over it. Her hair is chestnut and very short. Her eyes are a pleasant brown.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Halflings.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Dwarven people; and she seems to be bored by most things

Flaws: Ugly, Racist, Mundane. Bonds: Guardian, Slave. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 900 sp.

Description: A stocky darker skinned woman, she wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. Her brown hair is greasy and uncared for. Her fierce violet eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is a Marshal first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Halflings.

History: She was born in the west. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She has never given up on her singing dream.

Motivation: Gnomish compassion; and expand her business

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 170 gp.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 5'2" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears bulky tan painted plate armor. Her blonde hair is well kept. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

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. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Born in the south to a Marshal, Valanthe learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, she put together a working one.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Job, Slave. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 260 gp.