Description: She wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. 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 was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Persistence, Athletic, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a tattered pair of loose pastel pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. She has yellow fur. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Great hails from a village terrorized by brigands. 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. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by brigands. Great was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the brigands.

Motivation: Many brigands want her driven away.

Ideals: Optimist, Joker. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 4000 gp. Amethyst (70 gp).

Description: She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). She carries with her a set of bows on her belt, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. She has wavy auburn hair. Her gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: Lidda was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Lidda 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 Lidda. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease, Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 3000 gp. Jet (160 gp). Silver pearl (160 gp). Blue star sapphire (1100 gp). Jet (160 gp). Chalcedony (50 gp). Blue quartz (9 gp). Black pearl (400 gp). Blue star sapphire (1100 gp). Peridot (50 gp). Alexandrite (400 gp). White opal (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears a tan collared shirt and black pants. He accessorizes with a brown scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His hair is cut close to his head. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Gimble was raised in a hard working conservative environment. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Gnomish conditions. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Cook again; and expand his business

Ideals: Justice, Joker. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: Eye agate (10 gp). Star ruby (1100 gp). Amethyst (140 gp). 1 Minor magic item.