Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears suspenders and brown workpants. Her shirt is grey, and she wears a heavy brown leather apron most of the time. She is bald on top and has large white tufts of hair around her ears. Her eyes are amber and catlike.

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 disdains her fellow westerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Her mother was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, she put together a working one.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Halfling artifacts is her passion; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 33000 sp. Amber (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He wears a fancy tan suit. He wears his chestnut hair up. His half smiles and violet eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. A true patriot, Umpen would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Pacifist, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Family. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 100 gp. 3 Smokesticks. 4 Thunderstones.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, she wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. Her tied-back hair is blonde. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: Born to a Stableman, her father struggled to pay the bills. In her 10th year, her parents were killed by a brigands raid, leaving Oda alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by brigands. Oda was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the brigands.

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

Ideals: Optimist, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner, and a wedding ring on her left hand. She has moderate length blonde hair. Her hazel eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know 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, Tervaround is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. When Tervaround reached her early adolescence her Gnome mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She has since married many spouses, only to have them die. She claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Nature, Military. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with white lining and desert motifs. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his shortbow, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a clover on it. His hair is cut close to his head. He has a dull look in his green eyes.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Ulblyn isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Halfling unity. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Gifted from a young age, Ulblyn studied abroad. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and nothing but the best is good enough for him

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 1800 sp.

Description: 5'2" and muscular, this western woman is dressed in a clean green cloak covering her clean studded leather. She has done her best to style her blue hair to look like a famous performer. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, she was no stranger to responsibility. A freak accident while working with her Fortune-teller father left her crippled. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist, Joker. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 370 gp. 1 Masterwork manacles.

Description: This late middle aged woman wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents and is in decent physical shape. Her crest, while still mostly bronze, has prominent grey streaks. Her gold eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this western gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. The war was a terrible time for her, and Chassath does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Chassath has worked very hard to control her curse. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things; and to find somewhere to settle down

Flaws: Depressed, Mundane, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: This woman is very fat, and typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull brown iron scale mail. Her purple hair is unkempt and raggedy. She has black eyes and a black hat with a brown feather.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. Shax is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: Shax was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Spice Merchant they were divorced and she won custody of their son. She worked as a Mercenary, and she later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his morningstar, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a card on it. His hair is blonde, silky, and of moderate length. His violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: Naill was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. He has worked as a Scribe like his father before him.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and wants to raise his children well

Flaws: Disease, Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: Just what you see.