Description: This western woman is abnormally tall. She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft grey waves gently in the breeze. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her hair is cut close to her head. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes drow are coming to abduct people. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: A powerful slaver made her what she is. 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 moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: A deep hatred of drow.

Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Enemies, Criminal record, Mentor. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This slender man stands about 6'9". He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. With bright blonde hair and a scraggly beard. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with music. He constantly tries to fill his life with music. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered music. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Military. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 30 gp. Sardonyx (80 gp).

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her crest is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Dragonborns.

History: Hethress was born with her mother's beautiful face. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Hethress fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Optimist. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: He wears a tattered pair of loose brown pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. His moppish silver hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: Thorin was raised in a hard working conservative environment. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Painter again.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Secretive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 120 gp. Carnelian (30 gp). 1 Average lock.