Description: This tall, slender man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He wears a broad hat to cover his moderate length golden hair. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 290 gp. Blue star sapphire (600 gp).

Description: This southern man wears a tight fitting tan shirt and pants. His clothes are grease stained in places. His chestnut hair is thinning but still full. His eyes are brown and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of dire rats once and for all.

History: Born in the south to a Guard, Balimaar learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He's also a talented Ruler, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Adventurer, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 30 pp. Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp). 1 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: He wears professional attire. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He has styled his brown hair well, parting it to the right. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gray.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

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. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Apothecary. He's also a talented Carter, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 400 gp. Blue star sapphire (1600 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Oriax was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. Oriax liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He's also a talented Sculptor, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Nature, Job. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears a simple pastel robe with tan stripes complete with hood. He wears his black hair up in a very large beehive style do. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Bucklal embodies much of what other species detest in the Halflings. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He has never given up on his dancing dream.

Motivation: To protect his home; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Military, Guardian. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 3000 sp.