Description: This woman dresses in red turtlenecks beneath a black coat with pastel slacks. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized ruby on her left hand. Her red hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her eyes are likewise green. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Dee will drive conversation. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: When she was but 4 years old her parents immigrated from the north. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Extrovert. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a red coat. Her black hair is smooth and relatively long. She is baby faced.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Halfling conditions. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and dwarven compassion

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 360 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He wears a brown feathered hat and brown clothes. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His white hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his father's willingness to do anything to win. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Terse, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a green tunic with pastel highlights, and long white pants that bunch up around his shoes, and a wedding ring on his left hand. He keeps his chestnut hair in a pixie cut. His eyes are likewise black. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. 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: He was born in the west. Ahrim abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. Some 7 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Ahrim never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: In love, Attractive, Family, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 2000 sp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He wears professional attire. His white hair has been sun bleached extensively. His eyes are a pleasant gray.

Personality: Caeldrim is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: The child of a Actor, who enjoyed hunting, Caeldrim was taken on many hunting expeditions. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He has never given up on his music dream.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Rich. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 1800 sp.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 5'8" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears brown painted combat armor at almost all times. His brown hair is unkempt and raggedy. His gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He takes great joy in being the best Seamstress in town.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. His childhood dream was to be a Bookbinder, but he was a colossal failure. He struck the Seamstress job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. His black hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. He has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: Ribbles wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Sorcerer, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Ribbles was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. When Ribbles reached his early adolescence his Gnome mother 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 found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, he put together a working one.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Military. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An older man who wears dark leathers with embroidery, he is not a threatening figure. He has done his best to style his lavender fur to look like a famous performer. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady yellow eyes.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of orcs once and for all.

History: He was raised in a mountains tribe. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He bought a longsword and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and he wants revenge against orcs

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Nature, Slave. Occupation: Spy

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

Possessions: 50 gp. Violet garnet (300 gp).

Description: He wears a tan coat over a grey low-cut shirt, and a wide-brimmed hat upon his head. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his monstrous two handed axe, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a rose on it. His chestnut hair is braided into rings. His eyes are hazel and beady.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Jabbie will drive conversation. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While he appears to be a normal Gnome, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Extrovert, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, Insane. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 280 gp.