Description: She is a husky woman, who usually wears her black robe and has her dagger always slung over her shoulder. She has dyed her greying rusty crest a little too much giving a sharp rusty color. Her face is scarred and worn.

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: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Layabout again; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 800 sp. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He wears a red vest and prefers green and black shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His hair is long and auburn with streaks of chestnut, and is pulled back with small red clips. His beard is chestnut, braided, and well cared for. He has gray eyes.

Personality: He is a Merchant first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Merchant work with an outfit from a few towns over. Merchant work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Merchant for hire.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. He carries with him a set of ceremonial daggers on his belt, each one with a emerald on the hilt. He has done his best to style his white fur to look like a famous performer. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Gifted from a young age, Silent studied abroad. Being born in the north, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the north for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 270 gp.

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears just a white suit. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is a hateful person. She taunts others and blames them for her problems. She works hard and plays hard.

History: The child of a Fisher, who enjoyed hunting, Blossom was taken on many hunting expeditions. Blossom was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Blossom decided she wanted neither the life of her father nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She dresses in blue turtlenecks beneath a tan coat with green slacks. Her moppish red hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her eyes are likewise green. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Nissa speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. Her job bores her to no end. She has decided to make it more interesting.

History: She was born in the south, but her parents moved at a very young age to the north. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Gnomish companion (her 'brother'). She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes; and obtaining odd cultural gnomish artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 200 gp. Black pearl (500 gp). Zircon (50 gp).