Description: She is an average looking northern female in her early mid-life. She wears many layers of old clothing at all times. Her fur, while still mostly brown, has prominent grey streaks. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She married young, but lost her spouse to illithids. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 3 years.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and many illithids want her driven away

Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist, Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 340 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time, and she perpetually has her glaive ready. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her eyes are gray and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: This woman loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. She disdains her fellow northerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: The child of northern immigrants she idolized her mother. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform 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: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Slave, Adventurer. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 4 Antitoxin.

Description: She is a pot bellied eastern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears professional attire. She wears a colorful flower in her golden hair. She has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: Ella hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her writing career. 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, Ella is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She has dedicated herself to building a better kind of golem.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is her passion; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 800 sp. Tiger eye turquoise (7 gp). 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: Standing 5'9", this man is wearing a tight black one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. His dark red hair is braided into rings. His eyes are white and beady.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Passionate, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military, Rich. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 30 gp. 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: He likes to wear brown tank tops with white pants, and he perpetually has his flail ready. He wears his white fur up. His hazel eyes peer out from beneath his wide-brimmed brown hat.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Human culture. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Sun grew up listening to his father's many stories. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Family, Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 6000 cp. Red spinel (100 gp).

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears a robe, a symbol of magic around her neck, and a longbow on her belt. She wears her brown fur down. She has green eyes.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 6'3" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears a green wide-brimmed hat and green clothes. She wears a colorful flower in her gold crest. Her eyes are red.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Courier who has hired her part-time. 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: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. She became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: To be a Bookbinder again; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Military, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He dresses in tan turtlenecks beneath a grey coat with blue slacks. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his kukri, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a rose on it. His auburn hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a rose scrunchie. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his amber eyes.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: Erky was raised in a hard working conservative environment. His childhood dream was to be a Barber, but he was a colossal failure. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He wants to get laid; and he's in love

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Criminal record, Has a crush. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 260 gp.

Description: He prefers to wear flannel. He carries with him a set of glaives, each one with a amethyst on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. He has a long white beard with little hanging trinkets. His gray eyes peer out from beneath his feathered red hat.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Ombul embodies much of what other species detest in the Halflings. He seeks to pay back kindness whenever he gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip he always seeks to do solids for his friends.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. 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. Ombul 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.

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: Just what you see.