Description: She stands about 5'11" and wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty green coat over it. Her right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. Her brown hair is braided into rings. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines silver.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. She is a great chef.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 30 gp. 1 Backpack.

Description: This man stands a little under 6'5" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep grey leather and dull green iron scale mail. His long silver hair reaches down to his waist. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: Everard hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his singing career. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: Everard was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. He has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Artistic, Philantrophist, Persistence. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it, and carries greatswords. Her white hair is smooth and relatively long. She has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: Helgret was born in the east. At a young age she loved to build and create. Her father disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her father, she was betrayed dozens of times. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Barrister they were divorced and she won custody of their son. She worked as a Shoemaker, and she later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Persistence. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 80 gp. Banded agate (15 gp).

Description: This fat northern woman has a bulbous nose and does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her blonde hair is smooth and relatively long. Her violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She disdains her fellow northerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: She was born in the north, but her parents moved at a very young age to the west. She worked as a nervous Navigator and found it very stressful. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Bookbinder again.

Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (70 gp). 1 Silk rope.