Description: This woman is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She wears her lavender fur up. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic woman, Cloud's first love is herself. Her second love is also herself. 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 was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. A serious injury left her father unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm father. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Job, Rich, Debt. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 400 gp. Carnelian (80 gp). Iolite (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: With blue face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears long strands of topaz and short violet dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. He has a long white beard with little hanging trinkets. He has gray eyes and a violet hat with a brown feather.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Depressed, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 7000 gp. Alexandrite (500 gp). Carnelian (30 gp). Rock crystal (30 gp). Black pearl (500 gp). Chalcedony (30 gp). Obsidian (16 gp). Eye agate (16 gp). Amethyst (150 gp). Moss agate (16 gp). Star rose quartz (30 gp). Zircon (30 gp). Banded agate (16 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her white hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. This brown eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: She was born in the north, but her parents moved at a very young age to the east. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Helja 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 Helja. After a long history of fighting, Helja and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 390 gp.

Description: 6'2" and muscular, this eastern man wears bulky green painted plate armor. He wears a deerstalker hat to hide his balding. His red eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. As he has aged he has sought to do reparations for his actions as a youth. He is also making sure that his compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable, Justice, Logical. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 200 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.