Description: With yellow face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she usually wears her brown robe and has her kukri always slung over her shoulder. Her white hair is still thick. Her eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: Balifra was born the youngest of three triplets. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 1400 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1400 gp).

Description: She is an average looking southern female in her early mid-life. She is wearing a long, green, dusty cloak. Her brass crest is drawn into a tight pony tail with a card scrunchie. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Saphara was born on a far southern plains where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Mason. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To unite with her sister; and expand her business

Flaws: Emotional, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He wears a worn and beaten armor. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His white fur is drawn into a tight pony tail with a dagger scrunchie. He has a dull look in his hazel eyes.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He seeks to pay back kindness whenever he gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip he always seeks to do solids for his friends.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Shadow grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Shadow. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Slave, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 500 gp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1300 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. She keeps her blonde hair in a pixie cut. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is a hateful person. She taunts others and blames them for her problems. On top of that she is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to her employer will always come first she doesn't like to hit women.

History: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the west. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and to settle down with her crush

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Has a crush, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.