Description: 3'4" and muscular, this southern man wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Locksmith arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. In his 17th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother 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 knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist. Flaws: Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 130 gp. Deep green spinel (70 gp).

Description: This woman is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized emerald on her right hand. She keeps her white hair in a pixie cut. Her eyes are white and catlike.

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 does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: She comes from a rich eastern family. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Ea 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 Ea. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions.

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This tall, slender man wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with small hat. He has moderate length white hair. He has white eyes and a green hat with a black feather.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his mother. Marbas was born on a far southern mountains where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Fortune-teller. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Philantrophist, Justice. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 500 sp. Citrine (70 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her hair is auburn and curly. Her green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Her druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, In love. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 6000 cp. Coral (110 gp). Hematite (6 gp). Amethyst (110 gp).

Description: He has a missing left leg. He wears a tattered pair of loose grey pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. He wears a colorful flower in his golden hair. He has a dull look in his amber eyes.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He uses divination through singing.

History: His divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He was granted divine powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Poor, Attractive. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 60 gp.