Description: She stands about 5'5" and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. She has moderate length chestnut hair. Her eyes are violet and beady.

Personality: She fancies herself a trickster and likes to rely on her wits to carry the day. She cares for her older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her writing with anyone who is interested.

History: Millicent lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her mother worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled mother and took her mother's old job. She has never given up on her writing dream.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and to reunite with her absent mother

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 2000 cp. Iolite (20 gp).

Description: An older man who wears a white broad hat and white clothes, he is not a threatening figure. His hair is white and curly. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Osco isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Halfling unity. Osco is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: He was born in the west. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Family, Immigrant, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Server

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man stands a little under 4'4" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears grey robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a sickle, but if one is not available he will default to his bow. He sports a long golden beard, and similarly colored long hair. His hazel eyes peer out from beneath his wide-brimmed grey hat.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Revenge; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: She has a missing right leg. She wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. Her black hair is wavy and long. Her eyes are likewise blue. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Murgen fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears rags and sports a simple walking cane, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her silver hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. Her mother was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. Some 4 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Tana never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Optimist, Persistence. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Poor, In love, Nature. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover his moderate length chestnut hair. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 16. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He moved out south to avoid the crime he committed. He bought a falchion and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Nature, Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears professional attire. His silver hair is cut short. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He has all his life been fascinated with painting.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He was granted arcane powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He is content.

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Half-Elves. Her skin is dark but she possesses many tan ritualistic tattoos. She wears yellow trousers with tan and green striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. With wild chestnut hair. Her eyes are a pleasant brown.

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: Gifted from a young age, Chaedi studied abroad. After coming to the age of reason, Chaedi took it upon herself to study the psionic arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She has dedicated herself to building a better village for her children.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and to be a sellsword again

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 160 gp. Deep green spinel (50 gp). 3 Smokesticks.

Description: This tall, slender man wears silk and lounges about seductively. His chestnut hair, when down, is lengthy. His eyes are likewise hazel.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. 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, Qualen is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. Qualen was born on a far northern plains where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Jeweler. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and he desires to right it; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 100 gp.