Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His white hair is matted, messy, and big. His hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: Born in the south his family was never financially stable. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Doctor hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. Some 6 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Pikar never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Disciplined, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, In love, Criminal record. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: Her skin is bronze and flawless. She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. She is an epitome of beauty. She has done her best to style her black hair to look like a famous performer. Her eyes are green and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Halflings.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Military, Slave. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She wears a brown costume with the symbols of death on her torso. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. She sports blonde long hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: She was born in the west. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her hair is red, silky, and of moderate length. She has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. In her 17th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She was granted arcane powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and to end her boredom

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 1000 cp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp).

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. She keeps her red hair in a flapper bob. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. She also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: The child of a Roofer, who enjoyed hunting, Torbera was taken on many hunting expeditions. Like her father and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Animal Trainer. She tends to her Animal Trainer job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Job. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 200 gp. Jet (120 gp). Jade (120 gp). Eye agate (6 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears violet trousers with white and tan striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts, and a wedding ring on his right hand. He wears his golden hair down. His brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is a Banker first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: Erdan was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. A serious injury left his mother unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm mother. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and expand his business

Ideals: Artistic, Persistence. Bonds: In love, Job, Debt. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 160 gp. 1 Backpack.

Description: This late middle aged man wears a blue cloak and cross-gartered yellow stockings and is in decent physical shape. His auburn hair and beard is wavy and long. His fierce violet eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Heian lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and regain custody of his son

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Family, Enemies. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: He wears a tan vest and prefers white and blue shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. He carries with him a set of whips on his belt, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. His blonde hair is thinning but still full. His amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Warryn was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Lazy. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 260 gp. Hematite (8 gp). Chrysoprase (50 gp). Amber (160 gp).

Description: He wears a fancy pastel suit. He carries with him a set of hammers on his belt, each one with a opal on the hilt. He has wavy yellow fur. His copper eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 14 years.

Motivation: Expand his business; and balancing his hectic life and new fletcher responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Job. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 160 gp. Red garnet (50 gp).