Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a fancy violet suit. His fur is brown and curly. His eyes are amber.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. 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: Shifting was born the youngest of three triplets. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Rich. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: Rose (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His tied-back hair is brown. His green eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes brigands are coming to abduct people. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Ûshbaka was born into a poor family. Growing up, he dreamt of becoming a Sorcerer, to bring honor to his family’s name. When he came of age, he applied for a position with his town's local guard, looking to work his way up via merit and eventually become a Sorcerer in service of a powerful lord somewhere. 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 left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and to reunite with his absent father

Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies, Family, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 600 gp. Deep blue spinel (1200 gp). Malachite (6 gp). Silver pearl (130 gp). Lapis lazuli (6 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and is wearing a long, black, dusty cloak. His skin is also unnaturally pale. With a patchy blonde beard and wild blonde hair. His gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with singing. He constantly tries to fill his life with singing. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He wants revenge against gnolls.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Forgetful. Bonds: Mentor, Nature. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized white coat. His golden hair is lengthy. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: Thamior is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. The war was a terrible time for him, and Thamior does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Thamior lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His first spouse was a Shepherd, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Shepherd they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Slave Trader, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and he loathes his own lifestyle

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Military, Family. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 1000 cp. Jade (60 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears suspenders and grey workpants. His shirt is green, and he wears a heavy grey leather apron most of the time. His hair is white and very short. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: When he was but 3 years old his parents immigrated from the north. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 400 gp.