Description: A pudgy woman standing about 5'0" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears a yellow armored body suit, with a simple blue line shooting up and back down. Her white hair is knotted and matted. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Vadania lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 150 gp. Bloodstone (50 gp).

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy purple stubble. He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. He has a hunchback. His purple hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a small hat. He has gleaming, smiling red eyes.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Hunter arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Disease, Greedy. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears a pastel shirt with thin black vertical stripes and tan pants. Her black fur is knotted and matted. Her ears are large.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. 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, Shadow is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Shadow was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Disciplined, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Mentor, Slave. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 380 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is an average looking western female in her early mid-life. She tends to wear a tan poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her black hair is well kept. Her gray eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Gnomes.

History: Her martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She struck the Weaver job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 100 gp. 4 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears a tan coat over a black low-cut shirt, and a wide-brimmed hat upon her head. Her silver hair is matted, messy, and big. Her amber eyes peer out from beneath her wide-brimmed tan hat.

Personality: She hates Gnomes with a passion. As such she is filled with self loathing. 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 a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She dropped out of school to support her sick mother, and resented it. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His feathered hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: Pelt was born the youngest of three triplets. A gifted student he started as a Glassblower, but he got bored and became a Ruler. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Insane. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 300 gp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (900 gp).

Description: She wears a worn and beaten armor. Her cinnamon fur is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her yellow eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears bulky brown painted plate armor. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. She has a dull look in her blue eyes.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Her parents enrolled her in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that she could practice her martial talents. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and retire the richest woman in the north

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she prefers to wear flannel. Her hair is golden and very short. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Georgina embodies much of what other species detest in the Halflings. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: She was born in the south, but her parents moved at a very young age to the north. She became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. After a long history of fighting, Georgina and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and wants to raise her children well

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Scribe

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

Possessions: 40 gp.