Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears a robe, a symbol of luck around her neck, and a bow on her belt. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Bolhild was born the youngest of three triplets. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Scribe and was forced into it by her family.

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Family, Nature. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He carries a battered hammer and tarnished morningstar as well. His red hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a dagger scrunchie. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: Born in the north to a Bricklayer, Leucis learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. In his 18th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Military, Job. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 90 pp. Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Bloodstone (80 gp). 1 Buckler.

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She wears her auburn hair up in a very large beehive style do. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and retire the richest woman in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Secretive. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Herbalist

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

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her hand crossbow with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt, and is pretty ugly. Her moppish silver hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her eyes are a pleasant hazel.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Armorer who has hired her part-time. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Hlin was born in the north. At a young age she loved to build and create. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Hlin grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Hlin. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and she would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Has a crush, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 40 pp.