Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She has moderate length white hair. She has a dull look in her silver eyes.

Personality: She fancies herself a trickster and likes to rely on her wits to carry the day. She cares for her older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: Gomory lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. In her 12th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father 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 has dedicated herself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 1800 sp. 1 Small steel mirror.

Description: This man wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His rusty crest is unkempt and raggedy. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Cartwright born in the past three hundred years. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Born in the east his family was never financially stable. One day when Quarethon was young, his father was sewing while trying to overcome the flu, when suddenly his father dropped to the ground dead. His father had died from a severe disease that was unknown to the village doctor. Quarethon was heart-stricken from the event, and his mother started working long hours to provde for them. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, PTSD. Bonds: Poor, Job, Family. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 110 gp. 4 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: He is a husky man, who is dressed in earthy colors with a brown and blue handkerchief worn on his left side. He keeps his cinnamon fur in a pixie cut. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Mason but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He has worked as a Mason like his mother before him.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Mentor, Job. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: She wears a fancy black dress. She is portly but not overly obese. Her hair is red and curly. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Vorka grew up listening to her mother's many stories. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. Some 5 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Vorka never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and she desires power and/or immortality

Flaws: Insane, Emotional, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, In love. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 1 Hourglass.

Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a beer of some kind. She wears a black vest and prefers yellow and green shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down, marred by beers. Her blonde hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady green eyes.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. She found a children's book about a Half-Orc Sorcerer who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. When she grew older, she became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. She began work as a mercenary for hire. She would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Opinionated, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 340 gp. Sardonyx (30 gp).

Description: This woman is wearing a long, violet, dusty cloak. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized amethyst on her left hand. Her chestnut hair is smooth and relatively long. Her eyes are likewise hazel. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Barrister. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: Bethrynna lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job, Family. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears baggy blue pantaloons and a black scarf. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. He keeps his long chestnut hair kept up in a rat tail. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Fisher arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever he goes.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he is greedy

Ideals: Gifted, Philantrophist, Athletic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A stocky darker skinned woman, she wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her longsword with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is mildly Dwarf supremacist, though she does not identify as such. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Crown-heir responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 800 sp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. She has dyed her greying brown fur a little too much giving a sharp brown color. Her eyes are likewise green.

Personality: She hates Tabaxis with a passion. As such she is filled with self loathing. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: Born in the north her family was never financially stable. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Fletcher hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Gnomish compassion; and her religion dominates her actions

Flaws: Ugly, Racist, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 1100 sp.