Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears a tight fitting brown shirt and pants. She has a very tight haircut. She has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. To her fellows she 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: Gifted from a young age, Joan studied abroad. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She would like to get married and retire; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Criminal record, Has a crush. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: A 3'1" eastern man, he is dressed in earthy colors with a white and green handkerchief worn on his left side. His auburn hair and beard is wavy and long. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Dondon is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Dondon was born the youngest of three triplets. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To be a Apothecary again; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Philantrophist, Justice. Bonds: Family, In love, Job. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 140 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy red stubble. She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. She has a hunchback. Her red hair is thinning but still full. Her brown eyes peer out from beneath her top blue hat.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: She was born into a rich family. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She has been helping groups of widows and orphans who have fled abusive spouses or lost their families to dire rats.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He prefers to wear pastel clothing when he does not wear armor. He wears his orange fur down. His eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. The war was a terrible time for him, and Shivering does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. While he appears to be a normal Tabaxi, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle.

Flaws: Shy, Depressed, Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: He is lean but muscular and likes to wear green tank tops with blue pants. His deerstalker hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His eyes are red.

Personality: Rimmon is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Rimmon grew up listening to his mother's many stories. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He struck the Apothecary job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Extrovert, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. She wears her brass crest down. Her eyes are red and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Daar will drive conversation. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Being born in the south, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the south for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way west. She was granted psionic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: To unite with her sister; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Extrovert, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Family, Enemies. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Her hair is silver and curly. Her gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

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 a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Halflings.

History: Merla was born in the north. At a young age she loved to build and create. Her mother was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Human compassion.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Shy, Racist. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 2 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears professional attire. His blonde hair is heavily combed to the left. His eyes are likewise amber. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. 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: Money/treasure; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Nature. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 100 gp. 2 Tanglefoot bags. 3 Smokesticks.

Description: This woman stands a little under 5'7" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. Her hair is golden, silky, and of moderate length. Her eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: She is envious of other's things. She hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that she so desires. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Her father disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her father, she was betrayed dozens of times. She leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever she goes.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Family, Religious. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 100 gp.