1. This is a character that Kay Laird is bringing to the table.
2. What is this character’s name? - Ester Van Missive
3. What is their ancestry (i.e. human, elf, dwarf, halfling, etc)? - Halfling
4. What is your job or role (i.e. farmer, hierling/mercenary, shopowner, bandit, etc)? - Mail Carrier/Courier
5. How old are you? - 50, like 18-20 in human years
6. Describe your physical appearance. - Not very tall for a halfling, stout, walking a lot, she has very pronounced calf muscles. Ester is barrel-chested. She has mousy brown curly hair and deep-set dark brown eyes. Tan-skinned and wind blown. Physically fit from carrying a lot of mail all the time.
7. Describe yourself with 3 adjectives. - Quick, Stout, Chatty
8. What is a valuable item/piece of lore/secret that this character possesses? Or do they value an ideal/concept or particular person (i.e. family member, guild member, honor, justice, love etc.) - Ester has a very tiny bluejay feather in a locket that her mother told her would protect her and make her quicker. She values her mother and her large family of siblings. Her mother wishes Ester worked in town and wasn't a courier. Taught her the Golden Rule.
9. What is a particular quest you would be willing to recruit or hire the player characters to go do? - To clear and make safe a particular route in the woods that has been overgrown and made dangerous by some unruly plants and deliver an important message to the goblinfolk living in the woods concerning the expansion of the nearby town. Smallfry the Goblin is the point of contact.
10. What would be their reward for succeeding? - The post office might be able to offer up a reward in gold. They might also be able to offer you some travel (as long as it's on the mail route!) via carrier griffons.
11. What would be the consequence of failure or refusing the call? - Ester will have to continue to walk around the entire forest or seek out more dangerous routes if the path isn't cleared. Important mail and medicine will not get delivered! The goblins might get wiped out by the nearby town if they aren't notified.

Optional Questions - not required

• What are the goals and motivations of your character? - Ester enjoys helping people by delivering the mail. She enjoys being physically active and fit, and the opportunity to be able to explore the wider world, and to get to see places that halflings have never seen before. She wants to see all the major cities and towns on the continent.
• How do these affect your general personality? - Ester is determind, focused, and loves to travel. She is encouraged to explore and see new places while she's walking and not keeping her nose to the ground. Ester was raised to be happy and positive, which come in handy with the road gets lonely. She's happy to meet other travellers on the road (but she's got tricks up her sleeves to protect herself!)
• How do you normally interact with your family/friends/peers? With your enemies/rivals? With people who work for you/report to you? With player characters? - Ester tries to treat everyone with kindness (the Golden Rule). She loves her family deeply, and will always treat them lovingly; all of her pay goes back home to support her family. Ester has a deep-seated rivalry with another courier named Clark.
• Do you have a particular accent or language? Any idiosyncrasies in how you act and speak? - Ester speaks in run-on sentences, and she will lose words and stammer because she speaks so quickly. Often, she will forget what she is talking about and find it hard to focus on anything else when she's deep in conversation and walking. Ester tries to speak without an accent and as plainly as she can to be as clear as possible. Her voice is slightly nasally.
• What impact have you made on the world? How have you shaped the local area? - Ester feels she is making a large impact in a small way. People know and recognize Ester since she is the one who delivers the mail. She delivered the peace treaty that helped to settle the land dispute between the Tall Folk and the halflings. She also delivered divorce papers to a local businessman who constantly gives her the stink-eye.
• Do you have any current problems that prevent you from being a bigger player on the stage? - Clark. He's a jerk! If he and Ester work together, he will always steal the credit. He has stolen important letters out of Ester's bag in order to deliver them himself and get the credit. When Ester first encountered the dangerous plants in the woods, Clark took some of the mail that fell out of her bag and ended up delivering them himself and not returning them to Ester who was already on the route.