Description: 4'3" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her hair is auburn and curly. Her amber eyes peer out from beneath her top brown hat.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: To protect her home; and to end her boredom

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Mundane, PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: She likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. Her white hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her fierce silver eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Shax embodies much of what other species detest in the Tieflings. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: She got into the Apothecary business at a young age. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She's in love.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Has a crush, Job, Mentor. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a chocolate of some kind. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane, marred by chocolates. His moppish golden hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. 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: He's in love; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Has a crush, Nature. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 1300 sp.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears a brown costume with the symbols of the sun god on her torso. Her cinnamon fur is long and unkept. Her blue eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: Dagger is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 1700 sp.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he is dressed in earthy colors with a white and brown handkerchief worn on his left side. His chestnut hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: He comes from a rich southern family. Ostracized due to the necromantic powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Halflings became a terror of the countryside. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Barkeep again; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: Peridot (80 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.