Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears a white feathered hat and white clothes. Her auburn hair is knotted and matted. Her eyes are gray and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She hates illithids. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. At a young age her mother died while driving off some illithids. Her father being the stubborn sort decided to stay and helped train her in bow use. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Selfish, Disease. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 100 pp. Rose (60 gp). Aquamarine (1500 gp). Chalcedony (60 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Banded agate (15 gp). Red-brown spinel (120 gp). Coral (120 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he dresses in tan turtlenecks beneath a black coat with pastel slacks. His brown hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. In his 12th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Fearful, Mundane, Disease. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 40 pp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is dressed in a clean black cloak covering her clean studded leather. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her mace, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a cross on it. Her golden hair, when down, is lengthy. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. The war was a terrible time for her, and Murgen does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: Murgen was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Murgen has worked very hard to control her curse. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to be a sellsword again

Flaws: Addict, Depressed, Disease. Bonds: Military, Job. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 500 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: He stands about 5'8" and wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized violet coat. His left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His auburn hair is thinning but still full. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 600 gp. Peridot (40 gp). Amethyst (130 gp). Black star sapphire (1500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.