Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right hand, he wears professional attire. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy silver hair. His eyes are a pleasant amber.

Personality: He hates Halflings with a passion. As such he is filled with self loathing. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Through the years after Howard was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Howard's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Howard and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and a strong sense of loyalty to halfling people

Flaws: Racist, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 300 gp. Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Red spinel (80 gp).

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty brown coat over it. His long brown hair reaches down to his waist. His eyes are likewise green.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. A serious injury left his mother unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm mother. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: He made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it.

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Debt. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears a brown collared shirt and white pants. He accessorizes with a black scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His golden hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Gifted from a young age, Corkitron studied abroad. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Unemployed. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and to be a mason again

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Enemies, Job, Religious. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 1000 gp. Amethyst (80 gp). Sard (70 gp). Blue star sapphire (1400 gp). Bloodstone (70 gp). Jade (80 gp). Aquamarine (700 gp).

Description: He wears a blue deerstalker hat and blue clothes, and carries swords. His auburn hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a cross scrunchie. His green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. 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: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Bowyer for hire.

Motivation: He made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Fighting, Opinionated, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Debt. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 300 gp. 3 Thunderstones. 3 Thunderstones. 3 Smokesticks.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears bulky green painted plate armor. He is an epitome of beauty. He has a long golden beard with little hanging trinkets. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Being born in the north, 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 north 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. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 500 gp. Deep green spinel (100 gp).