Description: A middle-aged woman, she is renowned for her bright tan dresses and hats, and is pretty ugly. She has wavy auburn hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She can't help but pocket interesting objects she comes across

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Religious, Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: With grey face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears a worn and beaten armor. Her red hair is singed and shortened. She has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her painting with anyone who is interested.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Her first spouse was a Ploughman, they had one son, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She has never given up on her painting dream.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing white cape and mantle trimmed with soft tan waves gently in the breeze. He has a long auburn beard with little hanging trinkets. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He is greedy; and money/treasure

Flaws: Antagonistic, Impulsive, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: A 2'8" western woman, she wears a tattered pair of loose red pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. Her hair is short and auburn. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines brown.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. Pearl is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job, Family. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: Silver pearl (40 gp).

Description: She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Her white hair is wavy and long. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is a Adventurer first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. Beatrice enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Born in the north her family was never financially stable. When the war came and ruined her parents she was left adrift. She was a hard woman then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Adventurer responsibilities is difficult; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Hedonist, PTSD. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 1 Half-Plate. 1 Banded mail.