Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a fancy tan suit. His dark red hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. His black eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of brigands may trigger it at times.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Cimer was born on a far eastern forest where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Shoemaker. He became a Shoemaker soon after.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and he desires to right it

Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Job, Enemies, Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 60 pp.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he is well dressed, constantly wearing a brown suit, grey shirt, and green tie. His brown hair is heavily combed to the left. His eyes are brown.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Faran embodies much of what other species detest in the Halflings. He disdains his fellow northerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He was born in a small island village. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and he's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Antagonistic, Insomniac. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature, Rich. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 600 gp. Iolite (20 gp). Freshwater pearl (4 gp). Blue quartz (4 gp).

Description: The light-skinned man stands 5'9" and wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His golden hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. His hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull white iron scale mail. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His hair, while still mostly brown, has prominent grey streaks. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: Vonbin lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His first spouse was a Roofer, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Slave, Family. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 240 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.