Description: She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. Her hair, while still mostly blonde, has prominent grey streaks. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: Rinn was raised in a hard working conservative environment. A serious injury left her mother unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm mother. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Flaws: Shy, Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Debt. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She is dressed in a clean blue cloak covering her clean studded leather. She keeps her black hair in a flapper bob. Her eyes are likewise blue. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Shepherd born in the past three hundred years. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Shepherd for hire.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Slave, Religious. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 300 sp. Azurite (14 gp).

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her hair is long and white with streaks of auburn, and is pulled back with small black clips. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, she's a very lovable idiot. A fanatic, her devotion to her small selection of gods is unquestionable. She claims to be doing their will and will base all her actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Optimist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 3000 cp. Freshwater pearl (11 gp).

Description: She is an average looking eastern female in her early mid-life. She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with pastel lining and desert motifs. Her orange fur is lengthy. Her eyes are likewise copper.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with writing. She constantly tries to fill her life with writing. She can't help but pocket interesting objects she comes across

History: Gale was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered writing. Now she works as a writing tutor during her time off.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Artistic, Logical. Bonds: Criminal record, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 600 gp. Blue star sapphire (1100 gp). Deep green spinel (100 gp). Red-brown spinel (100 gp).

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she tends to wear a large tan jacket. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She disdains her fellow westerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. While she appears to be a normal Gnome, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Sensitive, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 200 gp.