Description: This woman wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. She has dyed her greying black fur a little too much giving a sharp black color. She has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. Her job bores her to no end. She has decided to make it more interesting.

History: She comes from a rich eastern family. Her parents enrolled her in a Monk school at a young age so that she could practice her psionic talents. After months of barely getting by, Shadow managed to ambush a major caravan with a load of valuables. Instantly wealthy, she made her way to the capital under a new identity.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and obtaining odd cultural dwarven artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 200 gp. Sardonyx (30 gp). Lapis lazuli (15 gp). Jade (40 gp).

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her chestnut hair is lengthy. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Humans became a terror of the countryside. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Slave. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 300 sp. Freshwater pearl (14 gp).

Description: A 4'9" northern woman, she typically wears black cloth garments or leather armor. Her dark red hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a Stetson hat. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: This woman loves singing and to teach people singing more than just about anything. She has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: Gifted from a young age, Bryseis studied abroad. After coming to the age of reason, Bryseis took it upon herself to study the martial arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Revenge; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 90 gp. 3 Holy water.

Description: This light-skinned female wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her black hair is knotted and matted. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family She moved out north to avoid the crime she committed. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 100 gp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (70 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (70 gp).

Description: She is a husky woman, who wears a robe, a symbol of strength around her neck, and a whip on her belt. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Gynnie hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her music career. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic, Optimist. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 2000 cp.