Description: This slender woman stands about 4'10". She wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. She keeps her chestnut hair in a flapper bob. Her white eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes giants are coming to abduct people. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: Born in the east to a Gardener, Seere learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. A freak accident while working with her Bowyer father left her crippled. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Gardener responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 1000 gp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His hair, while still mostly red, has prominent grey streaks. His violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Ûkbûk is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He is content; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Joker, Justice. Flaws: Addict, Mundane. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 80 gp. Smoky quartz (50 gp).

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His chestnut hair is knotted and matted. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Bernard is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. 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 has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and he is greedy

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Religious, Rich. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 1 Banded mail.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. Her hair is long and auburn with streaks of black, and is pulled back with small grey clips. She has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and doesn't want to be a herbalist and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Disciplined, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Slave, Family. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 200 sp. Tiger eye turquoise (5 gp).