Description: She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. She has wavy blonde hair. She has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with painting. She constantly tries to fill her life with painting. She disdains her fellow easterners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Elysande grew up listening to her mother's many stories. In her 14th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She has dedicated herself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Halfling artifacts is her passion.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 160 gp. Sardonyx (70 gp).

Description: 4'8" and muscular, this northern woman wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her red hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Professionalism. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 120 gp. Citrine (60 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: A 4'10" western woman, she wears a robe, a symbol of strength around her neck, and a hand crossbow on her belt. She is bald on top and has large brown tufts of hair around her ears. Her amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes goblins are coming to abduct people. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: Susannah was born in the west. At a young age she loved to build and create. Her parents were killed by goblins in a raid when she was still a young child. The goblins captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Susannah 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 revenge

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his mother. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Humans became a terror of the countryside. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: To protect his home; and he feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Guardian, Immigrant. Occupation: Healer

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 40 gp.