Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and to end her boredom

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Hedonist, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: This slender man stands about 6'4". He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His crest is bronze and curly. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Azzakh's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: Azzakh was born with his father's beautiful face. A serious injury left his father unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm father. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and to be a layabout again

Ideals: Impeccable, Extrovert. Bonds: Attractive, Debt, Job. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: He is wearing a long, tan, dusty cloak. He carries a battered mace and tarnished bow as well. His chestnut hair is greasy and uncared for. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Shepherd born in the past three hundred years. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Cockaby has worked very hard to control his curse. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Shepherd.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and to be a brewer again

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful, Disease. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 6000 cp. Chrysoberyl (60 gp).

Description: She likes to wear green tank tops with red skirt. She carries a battered shortspear and tarnished kukri as well. She keeps her long dark red hair kept up in a rat tail. Her red eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She refers to her adoptive father for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Born to a Sage, her father struggled to pay the bills. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She has worked as a Shoemaker like her father before her.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Poor, Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 180 gp.