Description: This late middle aged woman is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing tan cape and mantle trimmed with soft blue waves gently in the breeze and is in decent physical shape. She keeps her long red hair kept up in a rat tail. Her eyes are likewise hazel. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: A powerful necromancer made her what she is. She found a children's book about a Gnome 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. She leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever she goes.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and she uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Adventurer, Mentor. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 140 gp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (90 gp).

Description: An older man who dresses like a well dressed Knight does, he is not a threatening figure. His blonde hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a skull scrunchie. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Knight. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Secretive, Disease. Bonds: Job, Attractive. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 5'5" and is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright blue and red, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. He has a auburn handlebar mustache and slicked back auburn hair. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Elf in existence. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. After coming to the age of reason, Rael took it upon himself to study the martial arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he is greedy

Ideals: Justice, Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He prefers to wear white clothing when he does not wear armor. He has a long golden beard with little hanging trinkets. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He has all his life been fascinated with music.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his martial talents. He has never given up on his music dream.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and a deep hatred of gnolls

Ideals: Justice, Artistic, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 220 gp.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He wears a grey small hat and grey clothes. His blonde hair and beard is wavy and long. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady violet eyes.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He worked as a nervous Shepherd and found it very stressful. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Family, Job. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: He is in excellent shape and prefers to wear flannel. He has a silver handlebar mustache and slicked back silver hair. He is baby faced.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. He worked as a nervous Shoemaker and found it very stressful. He has achieved small success as a Shoemaker.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Athletic, Professionalism. Bonds: Nature, Military, Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She wears a fancy grey dress. She is portly but not overly obese. She wears a colorful flower in her blonde hair. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. She refers to her adoptive father for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Ahlyssa lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Before the accident, she was one of the most outspoken anti-Halfling activists. She was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Halfling doctor. 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. Ahlyssa fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Family, Job. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: 2'11" and muscular, this western woman wears red leather gloves, a red jacket, and tight pants. She has dyed her greying golden hair a little too much giving a sharp golden color. Her amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Her divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Ostracized due to the divine powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Halflings became a terror of the countryside. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she is content

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears black leather gloves, a black jacket, and tight pants. He wears his red hair down. His eyes are likewise silver.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his mother. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and he's in love

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Slave, Has a crush. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 140 gp.