Description: A middle-aged man, he wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society, and is pretty ugly. His blonde hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: He got into the Shepherd business at a young age. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. He bought a crossbow and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and money/treasure

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job, Nature. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: This southern man is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His clothes are grease stained in places. His white hair has been sun bleached extensively. His blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Pacifist, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This tall, slender man wears suspenders and tan workpants. His shirt is blue, and he wears a heavy tan leather apron most of the time. He has dyed his greying lavender fur a little too much giving a sharp lavender color. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

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. He worked as a nervous Bookbinder and found it very stressful. He became a Bookbinder soon after.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats; and many dire rats want him driven away

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy black stubble. He wears suspenders and brown workpants. His shirt is red, and he wears a heavy brown leather apron most of the time. He has a hunchback. He has dyed his greying black hair a little too much giving a sharp black color. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Elven culture. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Traki lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Mayor they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Carter, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Carter and was forced into it by his family; and to reunite with his absent mother

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Family, Religious. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 600 sp. Amethyst (80 gp). Rock crystal (40 gp).

Description: This man stands a little under 2'11" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears long strands of aquamarine and short brown dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. He wears his auburn hair up in a very large beehive style do. His eyes are likewise amber. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. 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: Born to a pair of adventurers, Hamil grew up listening to his mother's many stories. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. 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: He has money and likes to spend it; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is his passion

Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Guardian, Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 700 sp. Amethyst (100 gp).