Description: She stands about 4'9" and wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. Her right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. Her head has been shaved. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She hates dire rats. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. When triggered she is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Sumnes 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 Sumnes. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud.

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 5000 cp. Rhodochrosite (9 gp). 4 Antitoxin.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears suspenders and white workpants. His shirt is black, and he wears a heavy white leather apron most of the time. His black hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are gray.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Roge isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Halfling unity. The war was a terrible time for him, and Roge does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and wants his loneliness to end

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Depressed, Disease. Bonds: Military, Nature. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 3000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He wears baggy white pantaloons and a grey scarf. His hair is cut close to his head. His eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his father. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Half-Orcs in Imsh's homeland. Imsh decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Imsh fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it

Ideals: Optimist, Fighting. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Debt. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: She is a pot bellied western woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears a green deerstalker hat and green clothes. Her red crest is drawn into a tight pony tail with a cross scrunchie. Her red eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Halfling culture. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

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. A serious injury left her father unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm father. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by illithids. Pogranix was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud.

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Debt, Enemies. Occupation: Actor

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 2100 sp. Brown-green garnet (70 gp).

Description: Her skin is bronze and flawless. She wears a worn and beaten armor. She is an epitome of beauty. She has wavy red hair. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Vicky embodies much of what other species detest in the Humans. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Vicky was born in the south. At a young age she loved to build and create. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. She found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, she put together a working one.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Antagonistic, Lazy. Bonds: Attractive, In love. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 3000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He dresses in white turtlenecks beneath a grey coat with tan slacks. His head has been shaved. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

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 has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. Ûgakûga abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Adventurer. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears red robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a morningstar, but if one is not available she will default to her quarterstaff. She keeps her brown hair in a pixie cut. Her eyes are likewise green. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Shaena grew up listening to her father's many stories. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and she's looking for her big break

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty black coat over it. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. Her golden hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. Her amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Gnomish culture. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Born in the west to a Farmer, Vanchu learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. Vanchu abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and to be a locksmith again

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. She keeps her yellow fur in a pixie cut. She has a dull look in her amber eyes.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Jeweler profession.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Left-Handed was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She became a Mayor soon after.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and expand her business

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Job, Mentor. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 10 pp.