Description: She has a missing left arm. She very much looks the part of a Guard. Her hair is cut close to her head. She has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: Nogu hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her music career. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Her martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. After coming to the age of reason, Nogu took it upon herself to study the martial arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She struck the Guard job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Expand her business; and money/treasure

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 40 pp. 1 Backpack.

Description: She is a pot bellied southern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep brown leather and dull green iron scale mail. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She is greedy; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Insomniac, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 800 gp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (180 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (3000 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (800 gp).

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His crest is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His red eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

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

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Job, Nature, Family. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 3000 gp. Finely wrought small gold bracelet (40 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (40 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2100 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Jeweled anklet (2000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2300 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1800 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (40 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Dwarves. His skin is dark but he possesses many black ritualistic tattoos. He wears grey painted combat armor at almost all times. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His eyes are likewise amber.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 85. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: Nuraval hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and he's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Insane, Secretive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: Just what you see.