Description: He wears black trousers with blue and black striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts, and he perpetually has his shortspear ready. His hair, while still mostly red, has prominent grey streaks. His eyes are gray and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Halfling culture. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Ruler profession.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Ruler they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Mayor, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: To be a Ruler again; and halfling compassion

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Job, Military, Family. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 1300 gp. Azurite (8 gp). Obsidian (8 gp). Iolite (50 gp). Hematite (8 gp). Banded agate (8 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This southern man has a large violet mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his green robe. His clothes are grease stained in places. He wears a deerstalker hat to hide his balding. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing dancing.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 50 pp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left leg, he wears suspenders and grey workpants. His shirt is yellow, and he wears a heavy grey leather apron most of the time. He has a white handlebar mustache and slicked back white hair. His hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when brigands swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. A gifted student he started as a Server, but he got bored and became a Scribe. He became a Scribe soon after.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and someone believes him a fraud

Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 4000 cp. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy red crest. He wears dull red sweaters, loose grey pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed scimitar, just in case. He has a hunchback. His red crest is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He moved out south to avoid the crime he committed. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 900 gp. Jasper (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 4'2" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He is dressed in an above average manner. With bright brown hair and a scraggly beard. He is baby faced.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He was taken from his home at a very young age. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Lazy, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 260 gp. Citrine (80 gp). Rose (80 gp).