Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears suspenders and black workpants. Her shirt is brown, and she wears a heavy black leather apron most of the time. Her crest is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She has gleaming, smiling red eyes.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: She is a Jackalwere in disguise. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She's also a talented Layabout, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 30 pp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is a pot bellied northern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears dark leathers with embroidery. His white hair is thinning but still full. His eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: Born in the north to a Apothecary, Zook learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. Zook was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Zook decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 1400 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1500 gp).

Description: This western woman is abnormally tall. She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing green cape and mantle trimmed with soft black waves gently in the breeze. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her long red crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her red eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: She comes from a rich western family. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Perra 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 Perra. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 2000 gp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1400 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2000 gp). Gold music box (2000 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (30 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (5000 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. Her gray fur is smooth and relatively long. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Justice, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.