Description: This woman wears a tight fitting black shirt and pants. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized aquamarine on her right hand. She wears her bronze crest down. She has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

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. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing singing.

History: Arava was raised in a hard working conservative environment. In her 14th 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. 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 feels threatened by others; and balancing her hectic life and new healer responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 200 gp. Silver pearl (110 gp). Carnelian (40 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). Rock crystal (40 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears a tattered pair of loose violet pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. Her moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Mella isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Half-Elven unity. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Dilettante. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her.

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Military, Job. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 4000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her whip with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She carries a battered hand crossbow and tarnished whip as well. She has done her best to style her copper crest to look like a famous performer. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Slave, Poor. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 2000 cp. 3 Holy water.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She wears her golden hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her violet eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. She became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. Being a Soapmaker 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 decided she is irredeemable; and retire the richest woman in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Pacifist. Flaws: Impulsive, Disease. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 120 gp.