Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She tends to wear a large grey jacket. She keeps her golden hair in a pixie cut. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Addict. Bonds: Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 40 gp. Peridot (50 gp).

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears baggy yellow pantaloons and a grey scarf. He wears his golden hair down. His brown eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is a Blacksmith first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Through the years after Aust was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Aust's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Flaws: Ugly, Secretive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: This late middle aged woman wears a black armored body suit, with a simple brown line shooting up and back down and is in decent physical shape. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her eyes are likewise blue. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of gnolls may trigger it at times.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Jeweler arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her parents were killed by gnolls in a raid when she was still a young child. The gnolls captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls; and many gnolls want her driven away

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He has no hair. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Baker business.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He was granted martial powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: She is wearing a long, black cloak. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. Her crest is gold, silky, and of moderate length. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She is harsh and unforgiving.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Dilettante.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and she is content

Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Slave. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 260 gp. 1 Chain shirt.