Description: This woman wears baggy green pantaloons and a red scarf. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her white hair is matted, messy, and big. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are gold.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Nija is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. In her 14th 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 was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She wants revenge against dire rats; and revenge

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 380 gp. Silver pearl (90 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears a worn and beaten armor. He is bald on top and has large white tufts of hair around his ears. He has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Gormogord isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Halfling unity. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Armorer arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Slave Trader. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire; and he has a crush on the local slave trader

Ideals: Impeccable, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Has a crush, Rich. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: She is dressed in earthy colors with a blue and grey handkerchief worn on her left side. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. She is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with her old comrades. She has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Human artifacts is her passion.

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 200 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. She wears a yellow small hat and yellow clothes. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. She has dyed her greying red hair a little too much giving a sharp red color. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Through the years after Jacoba was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Jacoba's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Slave, Job. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: He likes to wear tan tank tops with pastel pants. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His golden hair is lengthy. His hazel eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He has all his life been fascinated with painting.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Bookbinder arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: A deep hatred of orcs; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: She is dressed in a clean grey cloak covering her clean studded leather, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 5'0" when asserting herself. With wild white hair. Her eyes are a pleasant hazel.

Personality: She is a Shepherd first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: She was born in the east, but her parents moved at a very young age to the west. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Shepherd. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Shepherd for the past few years.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Bonds: Job, Slave, Immigrant. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 110 gp. Golden pearl (120 gp). 1 Everburning torch.

Description: He stands about 4'5" and wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized brown coat. His right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. He has dyed his greying golden hair a little too much giving a sharp golden color. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Elaim will drive conversation. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: Elaim 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. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears grey painted combat armor at almost all times. She has a very tight haircut. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Kristryd was born the youngest of three triplets. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. 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: Wants to raise her children well; and to reunite with her absent father

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Adventurer, Family, Rich. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She wears a simple grey robe with brown stripes complete with hood. Her silver hair is greasy and uncared for. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage son.

History: When she was but 3 years old her parents immigrated from the west. She dropped out of school to support her sick father, and resented it. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 40 gp.