Description: This slender woman stands about 4'8". She wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her golden hair is still thick. Her amber eyes peer out from beneath her top yellow hat.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She uses divination through singing.

History: Matilda was born in the north. At a young age she loved to build and create. Her martial abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Spice Merchant responsibilities is difficult; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Gifted, Persistence. Bonds: Guardian, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 20000 cp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She tends to wear a white poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. She carries a battered trident and tarnished monstrous two handed axe as well. Her golden hair is thinning but still full. Her eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: She comes from a rich southern family. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand her business; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Job. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

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

Description: She wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 6'0" when asserting herself. She has moderate length red hair. Her black eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: She comes from a rich southern family. Her father disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her father, she was betrayed dozens of times. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Vapula fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich, Family. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep tan leather and dull brown iron scale mail. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy golden hair. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. In his 16th year, his parents were killed by a goblins raid, leaving Fonkin alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to goblins demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he feels threatened by others

Flaws: Sensitive, Fearful. Bonds: Slave, Military, Enemies. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: Pink pearl (130 gp). Coral (130 gp). Sardonyx (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item.