Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears baggy brown pantaloons and a green scarf, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Hugolina grew up listening to her mother's many stories. A freak accident while working with her Spice Merchant mother left her crippled. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and revenge

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: In love, Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 230 gp.

Description: He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His long golden hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep violet.

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. Charles enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: A powerful slaver made him what he is. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Mentor, Family. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 15000 cp. A roughly beaten golden orb (180 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). 1 Half-Plate. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Banded mail.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears a white collared shirt and red skirt. She accessorizes with a grey scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. She has no hair. She is baby faced.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Robbie isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Halfling unity. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Robbie was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she is greedy

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Lazy. Bonds: Mentor, Rich. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears a black vest and prefers white and grey shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. She wears her brown hair up. Her eyes are white and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Her mother was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 50 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She wears a grey shirt, with a tan mid length skirt with tan tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her eyes are brown and beady.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: She was born in a small desert village. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and many dire rats want her driven away

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 90 gp. Red spinel (90 gp).

Description: This southern woman dresses like a well dressed Mortician does. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her brown hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Bookbinder profession.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Her childhood dream was to be a Bookbinder, but she was a colossal failure. She became a Mortician soon after.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and balancing her hectic life and new mortician responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: This slender woman stands about 5'9". She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. Her black hair is smooth and relatively long. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Seere is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. Seere was born on a far southern mountains where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Seamstress. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: To clean up the streets.

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears skinny pants and wears a pastel and brown robe with the hood down. His fur is brown and curly. His skin is flawless and his amber eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. 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: 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. He graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. He advanced relatively quickly due to his good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

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

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Military. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 4000 cp. Red garnet (40 gp).

Description: She is a pot bellied western woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. Her gold crest is braided into rings. Her gold eyes are passionate and lively.

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. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 1000 cp.