Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her hair is short and silver. Her eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: Arara hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her dancing career. She will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. She cares deeply for her spouse and does her best to make sure her guests look presentable.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic, Optimist, Logical. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: Fire opal (600 gp). Obsidian (5 gp). Aquamarine (1100 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Peridot (70 gp). Aquamarine (1100 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp). Star ruby (600 gp). Star ruby (600 gp). Chrysoprase (70 gp). Hematite (5 gp). Blue star sapphire (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This late middle aged woman wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition and is in decent physical shape. Her green crest is knotted and matted. She has gleaming, smiling red eyes.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Antrara was raised in a hard working conservative environment. 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: She has decided she is irredeemable.

Flaws: Selfish, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 100 gp. Rose (30 gp). Aquamarine (1200 gp). Violet garnet (1200 gp).

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her tied-back hair is black. Her gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. Ownka is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: She was raised in a forest tribe. One day when Ownka was young, her father was sewing while trying to overcome the flu, when suddenly her father dropped to the ground dead. Her father had died from a severe disease that was unknown to the village doctor. Ownka was heart-stricken from the event, and her mother started working long hours to provde for them. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and to unite with her brother

Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic, PTSD. Bonds: Family, Nature. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She sports white clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. Her golden hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She is a bit of a macho woman and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 110 pp. Red-brown spinel (160 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp). 1 Minor magic item.