Description: He is in excellent shape and wears a fancy brown suit. He sports a flattop hair cut. His fierce brown eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way east. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Rich, Family. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 30 gp. Deep green spinel (130 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is typically in his Healer uniform. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He wears a deerstalker hat to cover his moderate length auburn hair. He has blue eyes.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: Oskar lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way east. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 5 years.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and to be a servant again

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 500 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears light armors faded through time and improper care. His hair is long and black with streaks of silver, and is pulled back with small black clips. His beard is silver, braided, and well cared for. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his brown eyes.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Halfling culture. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Pikar is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Halfling conditions. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Barber. His white hair is unkempt and raggedy. His gray eyes peer out from beneath his feathered grey hat.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with writing. He constantly tries to fill his life with writing. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. A freak accident while working with his Actor father left him crippled. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: This fat northern man has a bulbous nose and wears a white shirt with thin tan vertical stripes and black pants. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He has dyed his greying red hair a little too much giving a sharp red color. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 3000 sp. Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1800 gp).