Description: He is in excellent shape and wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide his balding. His eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: He considers himself the perfect gentleman. He makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To end his boredom.

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable, Optimist. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: She has a missing left arm. She wears white trousers with pastel and grey striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. She has moderate length blonde hair. This violet eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. When she grew older, she became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. She began work as a mercenary for hire. She would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls.

Ideals: Opinionated, Gifted. Bonds: Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 2000 cp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright brown and tan, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. He is portly but not overly obese. His hair is silver and curly. His gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: This man loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 10000 cp.

Description: He wears a white wide-brimmed hat and white clothes, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 3'1" when asserting himself. He wears his auburn hair down. His eyes are likewise brown.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Halflings.

History: Ozyman lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He worked as a nervous Spice Merchant and found it very stressful. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He has a crush on the local Herbalist; and to settle down with his crush

Flaws: Cynical, Racist. Bonds: Family, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: With grey face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. She sports a flattop hair cut. She has green eyes.

Personality: She thrives on attention. She does whatever is in her power to gain the attention of whomever she deems a fit date. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Traulam lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her parents enrolled her in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that she could practice her psionic talents. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 100 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears a yellow collared shirt and blue skirt. She accessorizes with a white scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. She has dyed her greying white hair a little too much giving a sharp white color. Her blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this western gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: She got into the Slave Trader business at a young age. A freak accident while working with her Tailor mother left her crippled. She's also a talented Tailor, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears dark leathers with embroidery. She has dyed her greying brown hair a little too much giving a sharp brown color. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Brewer business.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. Her father was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Persistence, Fighting. Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 10000 cp. 1 Masterwork Light wooden shield. 1 Breastplate.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright yellow and black, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. With bright red hair and a scraggly beard. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He is obsessed with his god.

History: Aldous was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He has achieved small success as a Sage.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Job. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 140 gp. Citrine (50 gp).

Description: An older man who wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized brown coat, he is not a threatening figure. His hair, while still mostly auburn, has prominent grey streaks. This hazel eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. In his 10th year, his parents were killed by a orcs raid, leaving Veit alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by orcs. Veit was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the orcs.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and to prove his worth to the world

Flaws: Insane, Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 100 sp.