Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she prefers to wear tan pants and tee shirts. Her auburn hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. She is baby faced.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. A serious injury left her father unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm father. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Tiefling compassion; and she made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Debt, Job. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: She wears grey painted combat armor at almost all times. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly hammers and monstrous two handed axes. Her long black hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: She was born in the west. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Valida 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 Valida. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help.

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This eastern man is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His clothes are grease stained in places. His hair is short and chestnut. His brown eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. Traubon is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Guardian, Family, Nature. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 310 gp.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears a brown coat over a blue low-cut shirt, and a top hat upon his head. He has golden hair. His eyes are likewise hazel.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Fallond's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. His mother was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: To be a Knight again; and to reunite with his absent mother

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Family, Mentor, Rich, Job. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 21000 sp. Obsidian (15 gp). 1 Minor magic item.