Description: Standing 3'1", this man wears a tight fitting red shirt and pants. His hair is always cut to a buzz. He has hazel eyes.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Ostracized due to the martial powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Halflings became a terror of the countryside. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Joker, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 7000 cp.

Description: A 4'7" eastern woman, she wears yellow leather gloves, a yellow jacket, and tight pants. She wears her blonde hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her eyes are likewise brown. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She disdains her fellow easterners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: The child of a Performer, who enjoyed hunting, Elizabeth was taken on many hunting expeditions. Like her father and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Server. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Server.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and balancing her hectic life and new server responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature, Job. Occupation: Server

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 20 gp. 1 Healer’s kit.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He tends to wear a black poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He has silver crest. His gold eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Tarhun hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his dancing career. He will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. He cares deeply for his spouse and does his best to make sure his guests look presentable.

History: Born in the west to a Courier, Tarhun learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. A gifted student he started as a Mercenary, but he got bored and became a Courier. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Artistic, Optimist. Bonds: In love, Job, Family. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 1 Smokesticks.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears a blue cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. He has a chestnut handlebar mustache and slicked back chestnut hair. His eyes are gray and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. Cockaby enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. Some 8 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Cockaby never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Flaws: Sensitive, Hedonist, Ugly. Bonds: In love, Criminal record. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: A delicate brass dragon egg (80 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). 1 Magnifying glass.

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She has a long golden ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her skin is flawless and her brown eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: Born to a Knight, her mother struggled to pay the bills. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. She was granted martial powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Stylist and was forced into it by her family; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Family. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 50 pp. 1 Climber’s kit.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He wears a simple grey robe with white stripes complete with hood. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He sports a long auburn beard, and similarly colored long hair. His brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Conrad embodies much of what other species detest in the Humans. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Conrad was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Conrad was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. 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: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Antagonistic, Forgetful. Bonds: Slave, Military. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: He is a husky man, who wears a tan tunic with grey highlights, and long brown pants that bunch up around his shoes. He has dyed his greying white hair a little too much giving a sharp white color. His amber eyes dart from person to person.

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 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, Gennal is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the north. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Elves in the north were limited. He has never given up on his singing dream.

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

Ideals: Justice, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: She stands about 3'1" and wears baggy red pantaloons and a black scarf. Her left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. While she appears to be a normal Halfling, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She is content; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Insane, Impulsive, Mundane. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy golden hair. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He considers himself the perfect gentleman. He makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever he goes.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Impeccable, Professionalism, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 200 sp. Hematite (8 gp).