Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a tattered pair of loose blue pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. His hair is short and brown. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady amber eyes.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his father. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world.

Flaws: Ugly, Selfish, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Mason

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: An older man who is dressed in earthy colors with a brown and grey handkerchief worn on his left side, he is not a threatening figure. His red hair is still thick. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: Thorin was born the youngest of three triplets. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Halfling companion (his 'brother'). He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To protect his home; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Family, Adventurer, Job, Guardian. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 1500 sp.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. She wears a small hat to hide her balding. Her green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Bendoo speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Her father was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. In her journeys she found a malevolent artifact. She wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out.

Ideals: Impeccable, Logical. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Slave. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 160 gp. Blue quartz (11 gp).

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty black coat over it. His auburn hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His ears are large.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: A powerful brothel owner made him what he is. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Cook hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: This woman wears baggy green pantaloons and a blue scarf, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She keeps her dark red hair in a flapper bob. She has gleaming, smiling silver eyes.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. 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: Her divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. While she appears to be a normal Tiefling, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and retire the richest woman in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 50 gp. Chrysoprase (30 gp). Peridot (30 gp). 2 Antitoxin.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with small hat, and is pretty ugly. Her red fur is smooth and relatively long. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of giants once and for all.

History: Born in the west her family was never financially stable. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Farmer hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by giants. Drifting was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the giants.

Motivation: Revenge.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Enemies, Poor. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 400 gp. Freshwater pearl (4 gp).

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears baggy black pantaloons and a yellow scarf. He has a silver handlebar mustache and slicked back silver hair. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Bûth was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He struck the Jeweler job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Disciplined, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Military. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (600 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She is well dressed, constantly wearing a black suit, violet shirt, and brown tie. Her crest is bronze and very short. 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 has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Born in the east her family was never financially stable. Perra abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

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

Ideals: Persistence, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 300 sp. 1 Backpack.

Description: With brown face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she tends to wear a green poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. She keeps her long dark red hair kept up in a rat tail. Her ears are large.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. 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 Jeweler. She bought a kukri and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Military, Nature, Job. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 700 sp.