Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears a red shirt with thin violet vertical stripes and white pants. He has a long silver beard with little hanging trinkets. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Bertram embodies much of what other species detest in the Halflings. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He struck the Bricklayer job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Slave, Job. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: He wears blue leather gloves, a blue jacket, and tight pants. He carries with him a set of scythes on his belt, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. He wears his chestnut hair up in a very large beehive style do. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He disdains his fellow easterners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the east were limited. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Poor. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 150 gp. Silver pearl (40 gp).

Description: She wears a tight fitting red shirt and pants. Her chestnut hair is braided into rings. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are green.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She takes great joy in being the best Bowyer in town.

History: She was raised in a island tribe. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She has achieved small success as a Bowyer.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears white trousers with red and white striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. With a patchy red beard and wild red hair. He has gray eyes.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Halfling in existence. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. In his 13th year, his parents were killed by a orcs raid, leaving Darrow 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. Darrow was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the orcs.

Motivation: Expand his business; and to be a shoemaker again

Ideals: Justice, Artistic. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with violet colored cloaks and clothing. She carries with her a set of greataxes, each one with a amethyst on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her golden hair is singed and shortened. She has blue eyes.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Farmer. She has worked as a Farmer like her mother before her.

Motivation: She's attracted to the PC; and wants a kiss

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Has a crush, Rich, Job. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: This woman is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing violet cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her black hair is matted, messy, and big. She has a dull look in her green eyes.

Personality: Leshanna is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She works hard and plays hard.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: She wears a worn and beaten armor. Her chestnut hair is unkempt and raggedy. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. She is an amazing painter.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Through the years after Kasdeya was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Kasdeya's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 310 gp.

Description: She is a husky woman, who wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. She has styled her auburn hair well, parting it to the left. Her fierce brown eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the east. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Emmeline has worked very hard to control her curse. In her journeys she found a malevolent artifact. She wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Tiefling artifacts is her passion; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Fighting, Pacifist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 200 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This late middle aged man wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents and is in decent physical shape. He wears a colorful flower in his black fur. This blue eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. A friendly and beautiful Tabaxi, he is rarely seen without a few beauties around his arms. Though a playboy in all rights, he is no lame duck.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Through the years after River was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. River's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He was granted divine powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 150 gp.