Description: This eastern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears a red cloak and cross-gartered yellow stockings. Her hair is brown and curly. Her eyes are green and catlike.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. 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: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Pearl was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Navigator again; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears a black tunic with tan highlights, and long black pants that bunch up around her shoes. She has no hair. She has black eyes and a black hat with a tan feather.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and she desires to right it; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears a green collared shirt and tan pants. He accessorizes with a blue scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His black hair is smooth and relatively long. His silver eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. Therai liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 230 gp.

Description: She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 3'1" when asserting herself. Her golden hair is well kept. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are green.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Marshal born in the past three hundred years. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Her mother was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She has worked as a Marshal like her mother before her.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac.

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 100 gp.