Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her golden hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. She disdains her fellow northerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Born in the north to a Barber, Malquis learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. Malquis was born on a far northern plains where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Barber. She has worked as a Barber like her mother before her.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: Chalcedony (20 gp). 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Masterwork Light wooden shield.

Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He is wearing a long, black cloak. He wears a colorful flower in his copper crest. His red eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Kaladan was born with his father's beautiful face. He always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was forced to fight in gladiatorial arenas alongside his partner. They became the best of friends and one day they managed to break out together and then went their separate ways.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 1100 sp.

Description: This slender woman stands about 6'1". She prefers to wear flannel. Her silver hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. She has green eyes and a white hat with a brown feather.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: The child of western immigrants she idolized her mother. After coming to the age of reason, Huru took it upon herself to study the arcane 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: She feels kind of lost in life; and balancing her hectic life and new shoemaker responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Cynical, Depressed. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 340 gp.

Description: He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. He is physically well-built. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy silver hair. His fierce brown eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Roofer arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 800 sp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp).

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He has dyed his greying blonde hair a little too much giving a sharp blonde color. This blue eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Fibblestib hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his music career. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. Because his mother participated in the massacre of their homeland, giants burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. He was preparing to flee to the north, but the outbreak of war prevented him and his father from journeying north to reunite his family. He has never given up on his music dream.

Motivation: Many giants want him driven away; and a deep hatred of giants

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Slave, Military, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 60 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.