Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she is wearing a tight red one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. Her head has been shaved. Her eyes are likewise violet. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Nikki embodies much of what other species detest in the Halflings. Nikki enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: A powerful slaver made her what she is. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: This tall, slender woman wears a simple grey robe with brown stripes complete with hood. She wears a colorful flower in her red hair. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: Born to a Soapmaker, 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. 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: Wants to raise her children well; and she seems to be bored by most things

Flaws: Mundane, Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Family. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 120 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is a pot bellied southern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She is renowned for her bright green dresses and hats. Her red hair is greasy and uncared for. Her red eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She is a Carpenter first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: She was born in the south, but her parents moved at a very young age to the east. Before the accident, she was one of the most outspoken anti-Half-Orc activists. She was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Half-Orc doctor. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Carpenter responsibilities is difficult; and expand her business

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Job, Slave, Immigrant. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 110 pp.

Description: He wears silk and lounges about seductively. He is physically well-built. He sports a flattop hair cut. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Vonbin liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. 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: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Rich, Nature. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 100 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp).

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She prefers to wear red pants and tee shirts. Her chestnut hair is still thick. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. The war was a terrible time for her, and Merla does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: The child of a Stylist, who enjoyed hunting, Merla was taken on many hunting expeditions. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the desert to a summer home near a old dungeon. She would wander through that old dungeon and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and she was stranded inside. Her family spent the next few days looking for her, and could only assume she was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the desert due to the painful memories there. Merla took refuge in the old dungeon and found the beat up warhammer and armor she uses now. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Nature. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 90 gp. Peridot (40 gp). 1 Masterwork Heavy wooden shield.

Description: This slender man stands about 5'5". He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His brown hair, when down, is lengthy. His gold unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Depressed, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 120 gp. Pink pearl (60 gp).

Description: She wears bulky blue painted plate armor. Her auburn hair, when down, is lengthy. Her blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

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. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She was born in the east, but her parents moved at a very young age to the north. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Elves in the east were limited. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She dresses like a well dressed Layabout does. Her golden hair is greasy and uncared for. She has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

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. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Through the years after Wella was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Wella's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: To be a Engraver again.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 20 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His crest is cut close to his head. His eyes are likewise red. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. 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, Mehen is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Map Maker. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 4000 cp. White pearl (140 gp).