Description: She is scrawny and has patchy red stubble. She usually wears her white robe and has her hammer always slung over her shoulder. She has a hunchback. Her long red hair reaches down to her waist. Her eyes are blue and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. She is a great chef.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs.

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 400 sp. 1 Masterwork Musical instrument.

Description: She is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright yellow and white, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. She is portly but not overly obese. Her hair, while still mostly black, has prominent grey streaks. Her amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: She comes from a rich western family. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Herbalist and was forced into it by her family; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Opinionated. Bonds: Rich, Job, In love, Family. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 160 gp. Peridot (70 gp).

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She prefers to wear grey clothing when she does not wear armor. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic woman, Cecily's first love is herself. Her second love is also herself. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. Ostracized due to the martial powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Humans became a terror of the countryside. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: She is an average looking eastern female in her early mid-life. She is dressed in a clean brown cloak covering her clean studded leather. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her eyes are green.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: She was born in the east, but her parents moved at a very young age to the west. Urshar was born on a far eastern plains where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Hunter. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She wears a robe, a symbol of the four houses of cards around her neck, and a longbow on her belt. She has shaved her head bald. Her amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Isabella fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Joker. Flaws: Disease, Secretive. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 3000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.