Description: She is in excellent shape and tends to wear a large yellow jacket. Her hair is black and very short. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Rich. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 20 pp. Sard (60 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty white coat over it. He wears a top hat to cover his moderate length red hair. His eyes are violet.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: Burto was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Burto has worked very hard to control his curse. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To protect his home.

Ideals: Pacifist, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Disease. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: Rock crystal (40 gp).

Description: She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep white leather and dull green iron scale mail. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. She has a long white ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: When she was but 4 years old her parents immigrated from the north. She found a children's book about a Half-Orc Wizard 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 spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: To settle down with her crush; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 250 gp.

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears a grey shirt with thin white vertical stripes and pastel pants. Her silver hair is knotted and matted. Her eyes are violet and beady.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of brigands may trigger it at times.

History: She was born in the north. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Dilettante. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a grey coat. Her golden hair is heavily combed to the left. This amber eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Hadwisa will drive conversation. She is an amazing painter.

History: Hadwisa was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the north, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the north for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way east. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Athletic, Extrovert, Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 80 gp.