Description: This slender man stands about 5'7". He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His auburn hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He has a dull look in his blue eyes.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: When he was but 4 years old his parents immigrated from the west. After coming to the age of reason, Norman took it upon himself to study the martial arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, she dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. She keeps her auburn hair in a flapper bob. Her gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Tordrid was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She worked as a nervous Spice Merchant and found it very stressful. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Spice Merchant for the past few years.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable.

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Criminal record, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 10 pp. Golden pearl (40 gp).

Description: This woman wears long strands of aquamarine and short red dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her violet eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She is a great chef.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Jeweler arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Paela was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Addict. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 6000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is dressed in a clean brown cloak covering his clean studded leather. His black hair is heavily combed to the right. He has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes orcs are coming to abduct people. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. Some 3 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Baern never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and revenge

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Enemies, In love. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 6000 sp. Chrysoberyl (130 gp).