Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her blonde hair is heavily combed to the right. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: She was born in a small island village. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Justice, Artistic. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 50 gp. Malachite (16 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. His brown hair is knotted and matted. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. Dean is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Dean hails from a village terrorized by brigands. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Marshal again; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Poor, Job, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 4000 sp.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he is wearing a long, pastel cloak. He wears a feathered hat to hide his balding. His eyes are a pleasant yellow.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Tabaxis.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. Some 4 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Smoking never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Insane, Racist. Bonds: Immigrant, In love, Military. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 1900 gp. Black pearl (800 gp). Zircon (40 gp). Brown-green garnet (60 gp). Rock crystal (40 gp).

Description: He wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. His brown hair is heavily combed to the right. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Rûkdûg grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Rûkdûg. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and he's looking for his big break

Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 6000 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (2000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (60 gp). Gold music box (4000 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1600 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (60 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (2000 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (2000 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (60 gp). Solid gold idol (900 gp).