Description: He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep yellow leather and dull black iron scale mail. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His red hair is braided into rings. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gray.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: He was born into a rich family. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Halfling artifacts is his passion; and he is greedy

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Rich, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 800 gp. Golden pearl (60 gp). Azurite (11 gp).

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a tan vest and prefers black and blue shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His golden hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He has a dull look in his hazel eyes.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when gnolls swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. He found a children's book about a Halfling Ranger who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: Many gnolls want him driven away.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Adventurer, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy white stubble. He prefers to wear flannel. He has a hunchback. His white hair, when down, is lengthy. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Skûn hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his poetry career. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Skûn was born on a far eastern mountains where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Fortune-teller. He has never given up on his poetry dream.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 50 pp.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. He has shaved his head bald. His eyes are a pleasant gray.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes drow are coming to abduct people. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Glassblower arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Being born in the south, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the south for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and to reunite with his absent father

Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Enemies, In love, Rich, Family. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 400 gp.