Description: This younger middle-aged woman very much looks the part of a Merchant, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her black hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep green.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Merchant for hire.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, In love, Poor, Religious. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: This northern man wears a simple yellow robe with brown stripes complete with hood. His clothes are grease stained in places. His blonde hair is heavily combed to the left. His amber eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 20 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she is dressed in an above average manner. Her hair is silver and curly. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

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. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Half-Orc conditions. 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. Emen fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and a strong sense of loyalty to halfling people

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: Obsidian (7 gp).

Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and wears tattered old clothes. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He is bald on top and has large white tufts of hair around his ears. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. A true patriot, Uraim would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: Uraim hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. Uraim liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Military, Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 2000 sp. Chalcedony (40 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears a brown armored body suit, with a simple white line shooting up and back down. Sporting a silver mohawk this woman's hair draws a lot of attention. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She found a children's book about a Human Sorcerer who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She has dedicated herself to building a better village for her children.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Tabaxi artifacts is her passion; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a green coat. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He keeps his brass crest in a pixie cut. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Norkruuth is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Norkruuth was born with his father's beautiful face. While he appears to be a normal Dragonborn, 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 has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Insane, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 600 sp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: He stands about 5'1" and wears professional attire. His left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His auburn hair is braided into rings. His eyes are likewise amber.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He takes great joy in being the best Courier in town.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. As a young child he wandered into the woods despite his father's warnings against it. Afterwards he claimed he had encountered illithids who tried to eat his hand. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 13 years.

Motivation: To be a Farmer again.

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. She is physically well-built. Her golden hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Kilia lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her divine abilities were realized during a raid on her village. 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: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Courier

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: He is a husky man, who wears a green collared shirt and yellow pants. He accessorizes with a brown scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His black crest is knotted and matted. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Locksmith profession.

History: He was born in a small desert village. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the desert to a summer home near a old dungeon. He would wander through that old dungeon and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the desert due to the painful memories there. Ghesh took refuge in the old dungeon and found the beat up bow and armor he uses now. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and expand his business

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Nature, Religious. Occupation: Sage

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

Possessions: 20 gp.