Description: This woman is very fat, and is renowned for her bright white dresses and hats. Her hair is chestnut and curly. Her gray eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Halflings.

History: Her arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. After a long history of fighting, Portia and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and halfling compassion

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Racist, Antagonistic. Bonds: Guardian. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light grey in addition to tight pants, and carries warhammers. He has a very tight haircut. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Olunt isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Dwarven unity. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He got into the Animal Trainer business at a young age. Ostracized due to the necromantic powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dwarves became a terror of the countryside. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 5000 cp. 1 Hourglass.

Description: She is in excellent shape and tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. Sporting a white mohawk this woman's hair draws a lot of attention. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. The war was a terrible time for her, and Fallthra does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: Born in the east her family was never financially stable. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and she loathes her own lifestyle

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Poor. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 70 pp.

Description: This western man wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His clothes are grease stained in places. His black hair is long and unkept. His ears are large.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. 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: He's repulsed by the PC; and a deep hatred of dire rats

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 340 gp.

Description: 5'2" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Dilettante. Sporting a black mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: Norman was born the youngest of three triplets. A gifted student he started as a Miller, but he got bored and became a Dilettante. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Dilettante for the past few years.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Secretive, Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Job. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she dresses in red turtlenecks beneath a yellow coat with black slacks. Her brown hair is heavily combed to the right. Her skin is flawless and her gray eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. Harriet is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her sisters into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: Harriet lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the north were limited. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Masseuse they were divorced and she won custody of their son. She worked as a Miller, and she later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Miller and was forced into it by her family.

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She wears a colorful flower in her white crest. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She takes great joy in being the best Shoemaker in town.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Mijira was born on a far western mountains where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Shoemaker. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Shoemaker for the past few years.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Shoemaker responsibilities is difficult; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: Rhodochrosite (7 gp).

Description: This fat western man has a bulbous nose and likes to wear ponchos typically of a light red in addition to tight pants. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His auburn hair is braided into rings. He has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Architect arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and he's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Rich, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears a blue feathered hat and blue clothes. He has styled his white hair well, parting it to the left. He has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and regain custody of his son

Ideals: Philantrophist, Optimist. Flaws: Lazy. Bonds: Rich, Family, Job. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 140 gp.