Description: This malnourished woman is wearing a long, yellow cloak. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Althaea was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers.

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Military, Family. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. He is physically well-built. His tied-back hair is brown. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: He was born in a small plains village. A freak accident while working with his Painter father left him crippled. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 30 gp. Moss agate (11 gp).

Description: She stands about 5'4" and dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. Her left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. Her red hair is singed and shortened. Her amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. She does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. A freak accident while working with her Bellfounder mother left her crippled. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: 6'5" and muscular, this eastern woman wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her purple hair is singed and shortened. Her eyes are black and catlike.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. To her fellows she 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: Shava hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by gnolls. Shava was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the gnolls.

Motivation: Many gnolls want her driven away; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 2000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. She wears a deerstalker hat to cover her moderate length orange fur. Her eyes are green.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. She is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. 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: Meet up once more with her childhood friend.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: In love, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a blue tunic with black highlights, and long red pants that bunch up around his shoes, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His chestnut hair is braided into rings. His green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. Some 10 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Lucan never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Emotional. Bonds: In love, Mentor, Religious. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: He dresses in white turtlenecks beneath a violet coat with white slacks. He carries a battered whip and tarnished scimitar as well. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy white hair. His green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Jak isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Halfling unity. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Spy business.

History: Jak was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Jak 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, Impeccable, Persistence. Bonds: Poor, In love. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 280 gp. Hematite (4 gp). Sard (70 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned woman, she wears a simple violet robe with pastel stripes complete with hood. Her golden hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She refers to her adoptive father for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Born to a Priest, her father struggled to pay the bills. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Impeccable, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Poor. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: 6'2" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He is dressed in a clean green cloak covering his clean studded leather. His silver crest is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: Pijjirik was born with his mother's beautiful face. His first spouse was a Laborer, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and he would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Opinionated, Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Has a crush. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 1900 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.