Description: 2'10" and muscular, this southern man wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His brown hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Halflings.

History: Born in the south to a Painter, Altho learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Halfling conditions. He struck the Painter job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Painter responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Racist. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 1900 sp. Red spinel (150 gp). Blue quartz (5 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She typically wears violet cloth garments or leather armor. Her chestnut hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her father disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her father, she was betrayed dozens of times. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 270 gp. Red-brown spinel (50 gp). Silver pearl (50 gp).

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy blonde stubble. She wears skinny pants and wears a brown and yellow robe with the hood down. She has a hunchback. She has done her best to style her blonde hair to look like a famous performer. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gray.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. She has never given up on her poetry dream.

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

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Fearful. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: He wears just a tan suit. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His red hair, when down, is lengthy. His eyes are blue.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He worked as a nervous Unemployed and found it very stressful. He struck the Unemployed job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and to be a mason again

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Slave. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 160 pp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 5'9" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears a fancy violet dress. She has wavy black hair. Her eyes are violet.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: The child of southern immigrants she idolized her father. Her childhood dream was to be a Miller, but she was a colossal failure. She tends to her Soapmaker job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and balancing her hectic life and new soapmaker responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Optimist, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: This woman is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her crest is rusty and curly. Her eyes are a pleasant gold.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. 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: She was born in the north, but her parents moved at a very young age to the south. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Dragonborns in the north were limited. She has since married many spouses, only to have them die. She claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and to protect her home

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Immigrant, Guardian. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His chestnut hair has been sun bleached extensively. He has green eyes and a white hat with a black feather.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Gormogord was born with his father's beautiful face. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. 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. Gormogord 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; and he feels threatened by others

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Pacifist. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 1300 sp.

Description: He prefers to wear flannel. He keeps his long chestnut hair kept up in a rat tail. His eyes are hazel and beady.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He dropped out of school to support his sick mother, and resented it. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Balimaar was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 110 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. She wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. She has wavy silver hair. Her green eyes peer out from beneath her broad white hat.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: She was born into a rich family. Her father took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She bought a warhammer and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs

Ideals: Optimist, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Rich, Nature. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 1000 cp. Chalcedony (20 gp). 3 Tanglefoot bags.