Description: He is a pot bellied northern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a worn and beaten armor. He has styled his chestnut hair well, parting it to the right. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. Shane enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Military, Attractive. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she prefers to wear brown clothing when she does not wear armor, and is pretty ugly. Her blonde hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She is a bit of a macho woman and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Hadwisa was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and to protect her home

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Guardian, Nature, Mentor. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 1000 cp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears professional attire. She has a very tight haircut. She is baby faced.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: A powerful slaver made her what she is. She moved out south to avoid the crime she committed. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Mentor, Criminal record. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized tan coat. He carries with him a set of spears, each one with a amber on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. He keeps his chestnut hair in a flapper bob. His eyes are likewise amber. His teeth are white and perfect.

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 feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Glim fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 20 gp. Freshwater pearl (6 gp).