Description: With brown face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with red lining and desert motifs. He wears a small hat to cover his moderate length silver hair. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. 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: He got into the Ruler business at a young age. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his arcane talents. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Ruler for the past few years.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 1700 sp. 1 Smokesticks.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she usually wears her black robe and has her shield always slung over her shoulder. She keeps her long black hair kept up in a rat tail. She has a dull look in her gold eyes.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and to be a laborer again

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Terse, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy chestnut hair. His green eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Barber. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Geoffrey abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Barber.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Justice, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Barber

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 170 gp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears brown painted combat armor at almost all times. He has wavy blonde hair. His blue eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. He will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. He cares deeply for his spouse and does his best to make sure his guests look presentable.

History: Bertram was born the youngest of three triplets. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and to reunite with his absent mother

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, In love. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with white lining and desert motifs. His white hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Halflings.

History: Gifted from a young age, Pirithin studied abroad. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Pirithin grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Pirithin. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Gardener for the past few years.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Racist, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 1400 sp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep grey leather and dull black iron scale mail. His silver hair is thinning but still full. He has a tattooed face.

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 never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. While he appears to be a normal Human, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Persistence, Artistic, Impeccable. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: He wears a brown tunic with black highlights, and long tan pants that bunch up around his shoes. He wears a feathered hat to hide his balding. He is baby faced.

Personality: Silent wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Sorcerer, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Silent has worked very hard to control his curse. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and a deep hatred of brigands

Ideals: Disciplined, Fighting. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: This woman wears suspenders and tan workpants. Her shirt is white, and she wears a heavy tan leather apron most of the time, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She has no hair. Her eyes are violet.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. When triggered she is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: 6'3" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. His hair is brown, silky, and of moderate length. His black eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his martial talents. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion.

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 160 gp.