Description: She is lean but muscular and wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. Her auburn hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady violet eyes.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job, Slave, Mentor. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears a robe, a symbol of luck around her neck, and a lance on her belt, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her red hair is cut short. Her brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of dire rats once and for all.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. At a young age her mother died while driving off some dire rats. Her father being the stubborn sort decided to stay and helped train her in lance use. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She wants revenge against dire rats; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: In love, Enemies. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 370 gp.

Description: 3'2" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. Her blonde hair is wavy and long. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered poetry. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she is content

Ideals: Justice, Artistic. Flaws: Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. He wears many layers of old clothing at all times, marred by sweets. He has wavy blonde hair. He has a dull look in his blue eyes.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: A powerful wizard made him what he is. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and money/treasure

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Carter

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 3000 cp. Carnelian (20 gp).