Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears a tan collared shirt and blue skirt. She accessorizes with a grey scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. Her golden hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: This woman loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. Shamil enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She has never given up on her painting dream.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Elven artifacts is her passion; and she is greedy

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 240 gp.

Description: This western man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty blue coat over it. His hair, while still mostly black, has prominent grey streaks. His brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

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: A child with a great deal of poetry talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered west to less war torn lands. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Opinionated, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, PTSD. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He usually wears his white robe and has his monstrous two handed axe always slung over his shoulder. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His red hair is greasy and uncared for. His green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. A freak accident while working with his Bounty Hunter father left him crippled. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He wants revenge against brigands; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Forgetful. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 400 sp. Sardonyx (20 gp).

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears a brown tunic with green highlights, and long black pants that bunch up around her shoes. She sports a flattop fur cut. Her eyes are copper.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: She was born in a small forest village. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved.

Ideals: Optimist, Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: Just what you see.

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 black hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. Her ears are large.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Performer. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Vorka was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the south, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the south for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way west. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Lazy. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 140 gp. Sard (50 gp). Rock crystal (50 gp). Rhodochrosite (11 gp). 4 Tanglefoot bags.