Description: She is a physically imposing dark-skinned woman. She is renowned for her bright blue dresses and hats. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide her balding. Her brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: She was born at the edge of vast island. Before the accident, she was one of the most outspoken anti-Human activists. She was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Human doctor. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it

Flaws: Disease, Racist. Bonds: Enemies, Job, Nature, Rich. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: She is in excellent shape and wears bulky yellow painted plate armor. Her hair is auburn and curly. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep brown.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Slave, Religious. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 300 gp. Zircon (30 gp). 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: She wears white painted combat armor at almost all times. She carries with her a set of flails, each one with a amber on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. She keeps her black hair in a pixie cut. Her eyes are green and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Bounty Hunter who has hired her part-time. The war was a terrible time for her, and Bendoo does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. Her mother was a soldier and died while she was still young. Bendoo was left her mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She has recently attracted an admirer that believes she's playing hard to get.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and she would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Has a crush, Military. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 320 gp.

Description: She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. Her hair, while still mostly silver, has prominent grey streaks. Her blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Anne hails from a village terrorized by goblins. She found a children's book about a Half-Elf Warrior who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature glaive.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Disciplined, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 11000 cp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears red robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a ceremonial dagger, but if one is not available he will default to his shortspear. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gray eyes.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. His divine abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Athletic, Opinionated, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 120 gp.