Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears dark leathers with embroidery. She keeps her long silver hair kept up in a rat tail. Her ears are large.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Shepherd. Claira is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way north. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and doesn't want to be a shepherd and was forced into it by her family

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Family, Military. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty black coat over it. He has done his best to style his blue hair to look like a famous performer. His red eyes peer out from beneath his top black hat.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: He was born into a rich family. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 160 pp. A small bag of saffron. (50 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp).

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her head has been shaved. Her eyes are green.

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. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: Yebe was born in the south. At a young age she loved to build and create. Her mother was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, she put together a working one.

Motivation: She wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away.

Ideals: Optimist, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 1300 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 5'4" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. She wears her chestnut hair up. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she is greedy

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 210 gp.

Description: He has a missing left arm. He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. While he appears to be a normal Human, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He was granted psionic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: Just what you see.