Description: This younger middle-aged woman is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants, and a wedding ring on her left hand. Her black hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a clover scrunchie. Her eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She refers to her adoptive mother 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: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Halfling conditions. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Flaws: Antagonistic, Racist. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Family, Rich. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 360 gp.

Description: She is a pot bellied northern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears a green coat over a violet low-cut shirt, and a broad hat upon her head. Her crest, while still mostly blue, has prominent grey streaks. Her gold eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Burana hails from a village terrorized by illithids. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the plains to a summer home near a ruined castle. She would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and she was stranded inside. Her family spent the next few days looking for her, and could only assume she was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the plains due to the painful memories there. Burana took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up lance and armor she uses now. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Revenge; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature, Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, he wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. His yellow fur is still thick. His blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Emerald was born on a far eastern desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Merchant. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 170 gp.

Description: This late middle aged woman usually wears her violet robe and has her glaive always slung over her shoulder and is in decent physical shape. Her moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep blue.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She is a great chef.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Her childhood dream was to be a Priest, but she was a colossal failure. She's also a talented Priest, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Slave, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 900 sp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her red crest is greasy and uncared for. Her ears are large.

Personality: Eggren speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. She uses divination through singing.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Cook arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Eggren was born on a far northern mountains where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Cook. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes.

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 200 sp. Tourmaline (160 gp). 1 Everburning torch.

Description: A middle-aged man, he prefers to wear white pants and tee shirts, and is pretty ugly. He has a very tight haircut. He has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. The war was a terrible time for him, and Gûnd does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Beggar arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and he is greedy

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 1000 cp. Hematite (5 gp).

Description: He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat, and he perpetually has his quarterstaff ready. He has a very tight haircut. His hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. 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, Lucan is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He got into the Farmer business at a young age. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Farmer for hire.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence, Justice. Bonds: Job, Slave. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 140 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: She wears tattered old clothes. Her white fur has been sun bleached extensively. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She disdains her fellow easterners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Ethereal was born the youngest of three triplets. In her 19th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 2100 sp. 6 Acid flasks. 2 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears a grey vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her blue leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her grey boots flare out at the collars. Her white hair is knotted and matted. She is baby faced.

Personality: Ida speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: She got into the Bricklayer business at a young age. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Ida grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Ida. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Impeccable, Optimist. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 80 gp.