Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears a black tunic with green highlights, and long blue pants that bunch up around her shoes, and is pretty ugly. Her bronze crest is braided into rings. She has red eyes and a black hat with a green feather.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Beggar arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her parents were killed by giants in a raid when she was still a young child. The giants captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Her left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a brown coat. She wears a feathered hat to cover her moderate length chestnut hair. She has gray eyes.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Tabaxi companion (her 'brother'). She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature sickle.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: With green face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she likes to wear brown tank tops with red skirt. She has dyed her greying red hair a little too much giving a sharp red color. She has amber eyes.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Mason who has hired her part-time. She has all her life been fascinated with singing.

History: Born in the west to a Mason, Hlin learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Has a crush, Job, Family. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 90 gp. Solid gold idol (200 gp).

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She is dressed in earthy colors with a tan and blue handkerchief worn on her left side. Her auburn hair is still thick. Her blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: She comes from a rich southern family. In her 16th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She tends to her Bricklayer job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well.

Flaws: Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Family, Rich. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. She wears a colorful flower in her silver hair. Her brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing poetry.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. After a long history of fighting, Birel and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and retire the richest woman in the west

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 1000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Fargas embodies much of what other species detest in the Halflings. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: Fargas was born with his mother's beautiful face. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. After a long history of fighting, Fargas and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world.

Flaws: Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp).

Description: He wears a brown shirt with thin tan vertical stripes and pastel pants, and he perpetually has his hammer ready. His hair is long and brown with streaks of red, and is pulled back with small brown clips. His beard is red, braided, and well cared for. His skin is flawless and his blue eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: He was born in a small plains village. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 300 gp. 2 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His black hair and beard is wavy and long. He is baby faced.

Personality: Hupe is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the west were limited. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Depressed, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 360 gp. Deep green spinel (60 gp). Obsidian (12 gp). Carnelian (80 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with violet colored cloaks and clothing. Her hair is auburn and curly. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Her parents enrolled her in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that she could practice her divine talents. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She wants revenge against orcs; and money/treasure

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 160 gp.