Description: This slender woman stands about 2'11". She wears a red feathered hat and red clothes. Her red hair is smooth and relatively long. Her blue eyes peer out from beneath her feathered red hat.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: She was born into a rich family. Like her mother and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Shoemaker. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and balancing her hectic life and new shoemaker responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Job, Rich, Family. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her sickle with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her black hair is matted, messy, and big. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She comes from a rich southern family. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 200 gp. Black pearl (700 gp).

Description: This fat southern woman has a bulbous nose and likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her auburn hair is greasy and uncared for. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. She works hard and plays hard.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Body Guard. After a long history of fighting, Ellyjoybell and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Body Guard responsibilities is difficult; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 210 gp. 4 Antitoxin.

Description: She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. She has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her auburn hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Dee embodies much of what other species detest in the Halflings. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: A powerful necromancer made her what she is. Like her father and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Sage. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Sage for the past few years.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 600 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she is wearing a tight white one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: The child of a Scribe, who enjoyed hunting, Lezre was taken on many hunting expeditions. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Human companion (her 'brother'). She has worked as a Performer like her mother before her.

Motivation: She has a crush on the local Scribe; and expand her business

Ideals: Opinionated. Bonds: Job, Nature, Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: He stands about 5'11" and wears dark leathers with embroidery. His left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. His small hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of dire rats once and for all.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. As a young child he wandered into the woods despite his mother's warnings against it. Afterwards he claimed he had encountered dire rats who tried to eat his hand. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Revenge; and many dire rats want him driven away

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His white hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. This gray eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Osco hails from a village terrorized by orcs. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. 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: To reunite with his old friends; and many orcs want him driven away

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 290 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has styled his black hair well, parting it to the right. His fierce red eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He is afraid of men and trembles around them

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Barber hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He wants to get laid; and wants his loneliness to end

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Has a crush. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright red and grey, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. He is physically well-built. His golden hair, when down, is lengthy. His ears are large.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: When he was but 4 years old his parents immigrated from the south. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Terse. Bonds: Rich, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 70 gp. Deep green spinel (40 gp).