Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he prefers to wear flannel. His chestnut hair is greasy and uncared for. His green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

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 enjoys reading and quiet.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. He always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Persistence, Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 400 gp. Violet garnet (200 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). Iolite (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This western man prefers to wear green clothing when he does not wear armor. His clothes are grease stained in places. His hair is blonde, silky, and of moderate length. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Ortegar embodies much of what other species detest in the Halflings. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Halflings.

History: Ortegar was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He has achieved small success as a Carpenter.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Halfling people.

Flaws: Antagonistic, Racist. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His white hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: He wants revenge against dire rats; and obtaining odd cultural elven artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Adventurer, Attractive, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 1300 gp. Sardonyx (60 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Violet garnet (1100 gp).

Description: This western man very much looks the part of a Weaver. His clothes are grease stained in places. His golden hair is greasy and uncared for. His hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Percival was raised in a hard working conservative environment. His childhood dream was to be a Blacksmith, but he was a colossal failure. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Weaver for hire.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and to be a blacksmith again

Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Job, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: Amethyst (140 gp).

Description: This malnourished man wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He has shaved his head bald. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: Reynard was born the youngest of three triplets. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Job, Family, Nature. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 400 gp.