Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she is typically in her Shepherd uniform. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of dire rats once and for all.

History: Born in the east her family was never financially stable. Her mother was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it.

Ideals: Joker, Impeccable. Bonds: Job, Enemies, Poor. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: This woman is dressed in earthy colors with a green and black handkerchief worn on her left side, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She wears her black crest down. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Synthrin grew up listening to her mother's many stories. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. Being a Jeweler 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: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and to reunite with her absent mother

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: This tall, slender woman likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. Her golden hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. She has blue eyes.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and a deep hatred of dire rats

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Military, Slave, Enemies. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 40 pp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This woman wears baggy white pantaloons and a grey scarf, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her auburn hair is thinning but still full. Her violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. In her 16th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father 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. Some 10 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Kithri never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and she feels threatened by others

Flaws: Disease, Fearful, Insane. Bonds: Mentor, In love. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 140 gp.