Description: She is an average looking western female in her early mid-life. She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: This woman loves dancing and to teach people dancing more than just about anything. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. She is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: Born in the west to a Sage, Jo learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. Jo abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend.

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 100 sp. Rhodochrosite (4 gp).

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. Her hair is short and auburn. Her violet eyes peer out from beneath her wide-brimmed red hat.

Personality: She is a hateful person. She taunts others and blames them for her problems. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Painter. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Painter responsibilities is difficult.

Flaws: Antagonistic, Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears a simple blue robe with pastel stripes complete with hood. Her black hair is unkempt and raggedy. She is baby faced.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: The child of a Mortician, who enjoyed hunting, Elama was taken on many hunting expeditions. Elama liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She bought a morningstar and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: She wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and she is content

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Server

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: This slender woman stands about 5'10". She is well dressed, constantly wearing a green suit, white shirt, and black tie. Her hair is cut close to her head. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: Kasdeya wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Expert, so she tries to act the part. She does a good job, for the most part... She plays an instrument quite well.

History: Kasdeya was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the north, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the north for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way east. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 60 gp. 1 Banded mail.