Description: This tall, slender woman wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. She has no hair. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is envious of other's things. She hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that she so desires. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Blacksmith arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She has never given up on her writing dream.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Greedy. Bonds: Rich, Slave. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 190 gp. 1 Magnifying glass.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she typically wears red cloth garments or leather armor. She sports a flattop hair cut. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Pearl was born in the west. At a young age she loved to build and create. While she appears to be a normal Halfling, 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 has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand her business; and balancing her hectic life and new scribe responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: He wears just a blue suit. He carries a battered greatsword and tarnished pickaxe as well. His tied-back hair is black. His eyes are amber and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when gnolls swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Revenge; and many gnolls want him driven away

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Bonds: In love, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears skinny pants and wears a grey and pastel robe with the hood down, and a wedding ring on his left hand. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy golden hair. His gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Optimist, Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: In love, Attractive. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: 4'9" and muscular, this western woman wears a violet shirt with thin pastel vertical stripes and blue pants. Her hair is long and brown with streaks of red, and is pulled back with small violet clips. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. She seeks to pay back kindness whenever she gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip she always seeks to do solids for her friends.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Insomniac, Cynical. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 400 sp.