Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. His red hair is cut short. His eyes are blue and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Mentor, Family. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 100 pp. Chalcedony (20 gp). Star rose quartz (20 gp). Onyx (20 gp). Malachite (11 gp). Smoky quartz (20 gp). Rock crystal (20 gp). Sardonyx (20 gp). Amethyst (110 gp).

Description: This late middle aged man tends to wear a large black jacket and is in decent physical shape. His golden hair is lengthy. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

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. Ostracized due to the martial powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Gnomes became a terror of the countryside. He tends to his Fletcher job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Lazy. Bonds: Guardian, Job, Slave. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. He tends to wear a black poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His red hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. This blue eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He disdains his fellow southerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Odo was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. Because his father participated in the massacre of their homeland, orcs burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. He was preparing to flee to the south, but the outbreak of war prevented him and his mother from journeying south to reunite his family. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Slave, Job, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 4'8" and wears silk and lounges about seductively. His red hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: He was raised in a plains tribe. A gifted student he started as a Slave Trader, but he got bored and became a Shepherd. He became a Shepherd soon after.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Job. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 2700 gp. Jasper (20 gp). Hematite (4 gp). Black pearl (1000 gp). Hematite (4 gp). Sardonyx (20 gp). Brown-green garnet (130 gp). Freshwater pearl (4 gp). Freshwater pearl (4 gp).