Description: A 3'3" southern man, he dresses in red turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with pastel slacks. His hair, while still mostly blonde, has prominent grey streaks. He has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. 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: Altho was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. He worked as a nervous Map Maker and found it very stressful. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Jeweler. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable.

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Has a crush. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 250 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This woman wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. With wild silver hair. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Marigold embodies much of what other species detest in the Halflings. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Marigold was born in the west. At a young age she loved to build and create. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered poetry. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Persistence, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: He typically wears white cloth garments or leather armor. He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His silver hair is still thick. He has green eyes and a white hat with a yellow feather.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He was born in a small desert village. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

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

Ideals: Joker, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Nature, Family. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 390 gp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a black coat. His hair is chestnut and curly. His silver eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 22. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Barakas was raised in a hard working conservative environment. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and he's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Insane, Insomniac, Antagonistic, Greedy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. Her brown hair is braided into rings. Her brown eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is a hateful person. She taunts others and blames them for her problems. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. 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 Architect. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 160 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (14 gp).

Description: An older man who wears just a pastel suit, he is not a threatening figure. He wears his beige fur up. His amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: Fragrant was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. Recently the stress of being a Actor has made it difficult for him to sleep.

Motivation: Many goblins want him driven away; and balancing his hectic life and new actor responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Addict, Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: He likes to wear violet tank tops with white pants. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He wears his auburn hair up. His gray eyes peer out from beneath his feathered violet hat.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. A friendly and beautiful Half-Elf, he is rarely seen without a few beauties around his arms. Though a playboy in all rights, he is no lame duck.

History: Born in the south to a Sculptor, Odo learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He struck the Sculptor job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 500 sp. Alexandrite (300 gp).

Description: The light-skinned woman stands 5'5" and is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. She wears her chestnut hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Eva was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. While she appears to be a normal Human, 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 was granted necromantic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 100 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears many layers of old clothing at all times. She has lavender fur. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Her father disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her father, she was betrayed dozens of times. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Forgetful, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: Just what you see.