Description: This slender man stands about 5'6". He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with grey lining and desert motifs. His hair is brown and very short. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep blue.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Depressed, Addict. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His white hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a rose scrunchie. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are violet.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Gardener arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Rolen was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Rolen decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by dire rats. Rolen was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: Many dire rats want him driven away; and a deep hatred of dire rats

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: Fire opal (500 gp). Rhodochrosite (9 gp).

Description: This man has a large black mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his white robe. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His green crest is knotted and matted. His eyes are red.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He has all his life been fascinated with painting.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: To pay off his debts; and money/treasure

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Rich, Debt. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 9000 cp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: 3'4" and muscular, this northern man typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep white leather and dull yellow iron scale mail. He has shaved his head bald. His eyes are blue and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Stannor embodies much of what other species detest in the Halflings. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. In his 17th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Military, Rich. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 400 pp. Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Jeweled gold crown (7000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1800 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (6000 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (600 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (180 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a tea of some kind. He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down, marred by teas. With bright chestnut hair and a scraggly beard. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He was born in the east, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. His martial abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He has a crush on the local Butcher.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Hedonist. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 2300 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.