Description: He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with wide-brimmed hat. He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. He wears his white hair down. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He is a great chef.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. 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: His religion dominates his actions.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man tends to wear a brown poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His black hair is smooth and relatively long. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

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 however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Ghaliver grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Ghaliver. 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 wants to meet his childhood hero; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Servant

Voice: French accent

Possessions: Chrysoberyl (140 gp). Blue star sapphire (500 gp). Pink pearl (140 gp).

Description: With red face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he is wearing a tight brown one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. He keeps his long red hair kept up in a rat tail. His half smiles and amber eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: Born to a Carter, his father struggled to pay the bills. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his father's willingness to do anything to win. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Roofer.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 90 gp. 2 Holy water.

Description: He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized blue coat. He carries with him a set of shortspears on his belt, each one with a topaz on the hilt. His red hair is long and unkept. He is baby faced.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Human culture. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

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

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Racist, Insane. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 2400 gp. Eye agate (12 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Blue quartz (12 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This tall, slender man wears a fancy yellow suit. His fur is black and curly. His eyes are likewise yellow.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Painter profession.

History: Tricking hails from a village terrorized by goblins. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and a deep hatred of goblins

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 110 gp. 6 Acid flasks.