Description: This woman is dressed in earthy colors with a brown and green handkerchief worn on her left side. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized aquamarine on her left hand. Her red hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a cross scrunchie. Her eyes are hazel and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Jacoba is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Disciplined, Justice. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Job, Family. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 50 gp. Malachite (10 gp).

Description: He stands about 6'8" and wears a robe, a symbol of luck around his neck, and a ceremonial dagger on his belt. His right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His green crest is still thick. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: Fax was born the youngest of three triplets. Fax liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Fax fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Fighting, Opinionated, Philantrophist. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 200 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp).

Description: He wears dull black sweaters, loose brown pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed rapier, just in case. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. He wears a broad hat to cover his moderate length blonde hair. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day.

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich, Guardian. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 2000 sp.

Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. His brown hair, when down, is lengthy. His green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Tiefling culture. He uses divination through singing.

History: Born in the east to a Actor, Raer learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Actor responsibilities is difficult; and many brigands want him driven away

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Silver pearl (100 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She is dressed in earthy colors with a violet and green handkerchief worn on her left side. Her long black hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Through the years after Griselda was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Griselda's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: To unite with her brother; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 900 sp.