Description: He prefers to wear flannel. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. He is bald on top and has large brown tufts of hair around his ears. His eyes are brown and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 500 gp. Tourmaline (140 gp). Jade (140 gp). Fire opal (900 gp). Deep green spinel (140 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His auburn hair is heavily combed to the left. His skin is flawless and his amber eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Thorpe isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Halfling unity. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: He was born at the edge of vast forest. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the forest to a summer home near a ruined castle. He would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the forest due to the painful memories there. Thorpe took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up club and armor he uses now. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Many orcs want him driven away; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Impeccable, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Nature, Job. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 20 pp. Peridot (60 gp). Chalcedony (60 gp). Red-brown spinel (120 gp). Iolite (60 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears white trousers with green and white striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts, and is pretty ugly. His red fur is kept up in a ponytail inside a small hat. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: Gifted from a young age, Shivering studied abroad. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Religious. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 50 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep blue leather and dull brown iron scale mail. He is physically well-built. His black hair is heavily combed to the left. His eyes are green and catlike.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. His parents enrolled him in a Barbarian school at a young age so that he could practice his druidic talents. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Mundane, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Mentor. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 1000 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (700 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1400 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (5000 gp). Jeweled gold crown (7000 gp).