Description: This tall, slender woman wears tattered old clothes. With wild white hair. She has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Willow isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Halfling unity. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. 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: She is greedy; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Impeccable, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is lean but muscular and prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. She has moderate length white hair. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: This woman loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She was granted arcane powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world.

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 2000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This northern man is abnormally tall. He wears a tattered pair of loose blue pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He has a very tight haircut. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines amber.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He was born in the north. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Cook hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Expand his business; and balancing his hectic life and new cook responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. His silver hair is singed and shortened. His green eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. He took after his father in leading caravans. Because they were valued, his father taught him to defend himself. When his father died while fighting dire rats, the young Orsik began to lead the lost caravan. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and many dire rats want him driven away

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She is lean but muscular and tends to wear a large brown jacket. Her chestnut hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her violet eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Sailor born in the past three hundred years. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: She got into the Sailor business at a young age. In her youth she was part of a gang. She got caught, but did not rat out her comrades and served her time in prison. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Sailor responsibilities is difficult; and she would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Has a crush. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 150 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

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. He keeps his black hair in a pixie cut. His eyes are a pleasant blue.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Farmer born in the past three hundred years. Foxilon is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Born in the north to a Farmer, Foxilon learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. Before the accident, he was one of the most outspoken anti-Half-Orc activists. He was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Half-Orc doctor. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Foxilon fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: This man is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His chestnut hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his brown eyes.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. A freak accident while working with his Farmer father left him crippled. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and to clean up the streets

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Standing 5'10", this man is wearing a long, violet, dusty cloak. His auburn hair is knotted and matted. His eyes are brown and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: Aelar was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He's also a talented Scribe, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting, Persistence. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 500 sp. Violet garnet (200 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His red hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. His ears are large.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. In his 12th year, his parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Warryn alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 4000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.