Description: This slender woman stands about 4'7". She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a violet coat. Her hair is short and golden. Her amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Barkeep. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Gifted from a young age, Valanthe studied abroad. She worked as a nervous Barkeep and found it very stressful. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: To protect her home; and expand her business

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Guardian. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: The light-skinned woman stands 6'4" and dresses well, wearing white shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. Her golden hair is thinning but still full. She has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To end her boredom; and retire the richest woman in the east

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 5000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy orange fur. He wears suspenders and pastel workpants. His shirt is red, and he wears a heavy pastel leather apron most of the time. He has a hunchback. His orange fur is thinning but still full. His green eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Halfling companion (his 'brother'). Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: He is greedy; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 600 sp. 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. He wears his brown hair up in a very large beehive style do. His hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. A true patriot, Morkral would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: He was raised in a desert tribe. Before the accident, he was one of the most outspoken anti-Halfling activists. He was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Halfling doctor. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Morkral fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Halfling people; and halfling compassion

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Military, Nature. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 400 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp). Chrysoprase (30 gp). Blue quartz (9 gp). Amber (160 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she is dressed in a clean pastel cloak covering her clean studded leather. She wears a small hat to hide her balding. Her green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

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 is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. After coming to the age of reason, Quick 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. Some 10 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Quick never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Mundane. Bonds: Family, In love. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 300 gp. Star ruby (400 gp). Banded agate (6 gp). Onyx (20 gp). 1 Half-Plate. 1 Buckler. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This malnourished man is wearing a long, green, dusty cloak. His rusty crest is thinning but still full. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. When Kerkad reached his early adolescence his Dragonborn father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He is content; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Lazy, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Military. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Superior lock. 1 Masterwork manacles.

Description: He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His moppish black hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Born in the east his family was never financially stable. Ostracized due to the martial powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Half-Elves became a terror of the countryside. He was granted martial powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and he feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Fearful, Depressed. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: This late middle aged woman wears dull black sweaters, loose tan pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed monstrous two handed axe, just in case and is in decent physical shape. Her crest is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her eyes are gold and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: Arava hails from a village terrorized by orcs. Arava was born on a far northern desert where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Priest. Being a Priest kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and she desires to right it.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Criminal record, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears tattered old clothes. Her long blonde hair reaches down to her waist. Her eyes are a pleasant green.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Emeny was born in the west. At a young age she loved to build and create. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Lazy. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 40 gp.