Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a worn and beaten armor. His long white hair reaches down to his waist. His blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is mildly Elf supremacist, though he does not identify as such. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: Born to a Butcher, his mother struggled to pay the bills. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Herbalist hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and a strong sense of loyalty to halfling people

Flaws: Racist, Impulsive, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Has a crush. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: He usually wears his green robe and has his morningstar always slung over his shoulder. He carries a battered club and tarnished morningstar as well. His green crest is unkempt and raggedy. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Born in the west his family was never financially stable. 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. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Pandjed fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

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

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Insomniac. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 400 sp. 3 Smokesticks.

Description: He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. He has a long silver beard with little hanging trinkets. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He has all his life been fascinated with music.

History: Osco was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Osco has worked very hard to control his curse. He has never given up on his music dream.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 90 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He prefers to wear flannel. His auburn hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. A freak accident while working with his Sage mother left him crippled. 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: Wants to work out more often; and money/treasure

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: Standing 4'3", this woman wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized brown coat. Her silver hair is knotted and matted. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from her. She is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Dwarf in existence. She is a great chef.

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. A freak accident while working with her Carpenter father left her crippled. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Shepherd for the past few years.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job.

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Mayor. Her crest is scarlet and curly. Her eyes are likewise red.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: Born in the north to a Mayor, Thava learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Mayor.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Flaws: Shy, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 1000 cp. Deep green spinel (60 gp).

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 4'10" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized white coat. She has black hair. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Myev is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Myev was born on a far southern forest where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Apothecary. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. She has dyed her greying gold crest a little too much giving a sharp gold color. She has a dull look in her gold eyes.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: Synthrin was born the youngest of three triplets. 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 Ploughman. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 60 pp.

Description: He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He wears his white hair up in a very large beehive style do. His eyes are gray and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: He was born in the south. His childhood dream was to be a Mercenary, but he was a colossal failure. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and someone believes him a fraud

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 300 gp.