Description: This slender man stands about 5'11". He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He has done his best to style his auburn hair to look like a famous performer. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This woman wears black robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a hand crossbow, but if one is not available she will default to her sickle. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized ruby on her left hand. She has done her best to style her silver crest to look like a famous performer. She has red eyes.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: She got into the Tanner business at a young age. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: She wants revenge against gnolls; and to reunite with her old friends

Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 60 gp. Tourmaline (140 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she is wearing a long, tan, dusty cloak. Her hair is long and silver with streaks of chestnut, and is pulled back with small tan clips. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Leshanna was born in the east. At a young age she loved to build and create. 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 now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears suspenders and white workpants. His shirt is tan, and he wears a heavy white leather apron most of the time. His blonde hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a small hat. His gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Shágflak lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He became a Barber soon after.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Opinionated, Logical. Bonds: Family, Job, Rich. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: This light-skinned male wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His top hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Bhevek grew up listening to his father's many stories. He always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her black hair is wavy and long. Her brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

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 is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Baelitae was raised in a hard working conservative environment. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 7 years.

Motivation: A deep hatred of brigands; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 600 sp. 1 Masterwork manacles.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears bulky red painted plate armor. His small hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are brown.

Personality: He is mildly Halfling supremacist, though he does not identify as such. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Born to a Courier, his mother struggled to pay the bills. In his 11th year, his parents were killed by a drow raid, leaving Gildmak alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Revenge; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Adventurer, Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 130 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This slender woman stands about 2'9". She wears a robe, a symbol of magic around her neck, and a glaive on her belt. Her white hair is wavy and long. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. 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: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. A gifted student she started as a Unemployed, but she got bored and became a Sage. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Gynnie fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Sage responsibilities is difficult; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Guardian, Job, Military. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 110 gp.

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.