Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears a brown vest and prefers blue and brown shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Her red hair is unkempt and raggedy. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 33. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: When she was but 4 years old her parents immigrated from the south. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south; and she feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: He is dressed in an above average manner. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly bastard swords and sais. His hair is short and brown. His gold eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. Qemuel was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Qemuel decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Cartwright. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day.

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Has a crush, Military. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 2000 cp. A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (40 gp).

Description: This light-skinned female prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. She sports brown long hair. She has gleaming, smiling violet eyes.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her poetry with anyone who is interested.

History: She was born into a rich family. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Humans in Aline's homeland. Aline decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: Brown-green garnet (150 gp).

Description: She wears professional attire. Her blonde hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Sarai embodies much of what other species detest in the Halflings. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Halflings.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Gnomish people.

Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic, Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 900 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing grey cape and mantle trimmed with soft blue waves gently in the breeze. His black hair is smooth and relatively long. His blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Bricklayer born in the past three hundred years. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: Trym was born the youngest of three triplets. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Bricklayer. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and an old rival family wants him found

Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job, Military, Family. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His purple hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His red eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. At a young age his mother died while driving off some orcs. His father being the stubborn sort decided to stay and helped train him in hand crossbow use. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Balam fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He wants revenge against orcs.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Military. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: She is in excellent shape and prefers to wear flannel. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved.

Ideals: Athletic, Pacifist, Optimist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 500 sp. Sard (40 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: 3'2" and muscular, this southern man is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing tan cape and mantle trimmed with soft white waves gently in the breeze. His brown hair is smooth and relatively long. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Crown-heir profession.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Architect arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His childhood dream was to be a Crown-heir, but he was a colossal failure. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: To be a Crown-heir again; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 330 gp.

Description: This woman wears long strands of opal and short green dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized opal on her right hand. Her brass crest is thinning but still full. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: This woman loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Born in the south to a Unemployed, Eggren learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 2 years.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insane, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Unemployed

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

Possessions: 20 pp.