Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears red robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a shortbow, but if one is not available she will default to her lance. Her head has been shaved. She has hazel eyes.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Dell hails from a village terrorized by giants. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the east were limited. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by giants. Dell was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the giants.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 230 gp.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she wears a tattered pair of loose pastel pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. Her yellow fur is smooth and relatively long. She has a dull look in her amber eyes.

Personality: She is a Mercenary first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She became a Mercenary soon after.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Flaws: Fearful, Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 90 gp. Brown-green garnet (130 gp). 1 Everburning torch.

Description: She prefers to wear flannel, and she perpetually has her axe ready. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Priest for the past few years.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Priest responsibilities is difficult; and to be a mason again

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: She is an average looking eastern female in her early mid-life. She is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. She sports a flattop fur cut. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep blue.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. When triggered she is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. Being a Scribe kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and she has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This woman is dressed in an above average manner. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized ruby on her right hand. Her golden hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a small hat. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep amber.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. 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 has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Religious. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: She is a pot bellied northern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. Her head has been shaved. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Juliana is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: She was raised in a forest tribe. She always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Athletic, Extrovert, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 90 gp. Bloodstone (30 gp).

Description: This man stands a little under 3'0" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He likes to wear red tank tops with tan pants. His brown hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He seeks to pay back kindness whenever he gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip he always seeks to do solids for his friends.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While he appears to be a normal Halfling, 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 remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

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

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Shy, Insane. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 1 Silver holy symbol.

Description: She wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her long red hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is a Seamstress first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Seamstress business.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Her first spouse was a Mason, they had one son, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His auburn hair is braided into rings. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. 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: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich, Nature. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 1000 cp.