Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a tight fitting tan shirt and pants. Her black hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her brown eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Andraste grew up listening to her father's many stories. In her 12th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she feels threatened by others

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman tends to wear a large black jacket, and a wedding ring on her left hand. Her brown hair is braided into rings. She has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: Emen was born in the east. At a young age she loved to build and create. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Persistence. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: In love, Nature, Religious. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 50 pp. Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp).

Description: He stands about 5'8" and is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft blue waves gently in the breeze. His right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: He was born in the west. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature shortspear.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and obtaining odd cultural half-orc artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She typically wears red cloth garments or leather armor. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. She has styled her black hair well, parting it to the left. Her eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She seeks to pay back kindness whenever she gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip she always seeks to do solids for her friends.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. Being a Stylist kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; 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

Ideals: Gifted, Philantrophist, Logical. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 5000 sp.