Description: This younger middle-aged woman is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft white waves gently in the breeze, and a wedding ring on her left hand. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her hazel eyes peer out from beneath her broad brown hat.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. In her 20th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety.

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich, In love, Job, Religious. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress), and carries glaives. She has slicked back silver hair. Her blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She got money to start a business from the gang present in town. She is greatly indebted to them.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north.

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Emotional, Selfish. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He has shaved his head bald. His blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. His first spouse was a Barrister, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Justice, Logical, Impeccable. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Nature, Family. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 5000 cp. Moss agate (4 gp).

Description: A 5'8" northern man, he wears a yellow shirt, with a tan mid length shorts with tan tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. His chestnut hair is cut short. He has brown eyes and a yellow hat with a tan feather.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He has all his life been fascinated with dancing.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. Being a Bookbinder kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Ideals: Artistic, Logical. Bonds: Guardian, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 280 gp. 1 Good lock.

Description: She very much looks the part of a Baker. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her hair is short and auburn. She has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: She does not care much for physical appearances, nor does she care much for other people. She does however care about what she wants and getting it. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Laborer profession.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. In her youth she was a Laborer, and wanted to be a champion fighter when she grew up. She was working during a period of war, and as one of the natives she lived in fear of joining the others in being slaughtered. She saw the brutality and swore off her fighting aspirations, taking her younger brother on her back after seeing her parents die, and fled the country. She's also a talented Laborer, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, PTSD. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Baker

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 300 gp. Alexandrite (900 gp).