Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears black trousers with green and pastel striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. 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 has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 200 gp. Rhodochrosite (11 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). 1 Backpack. 1 Superior lock. 1 Average lock.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy silver stubble. He has a large yellow mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his brown robe. He has a hunchback. He has a silver handlebar mustache and slicked back silver hair. His violet eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is greedy

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 6000 sp. Black pearl (1600 gp).

Description: The light-skinned man stands 2'10" and is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His wide-brimmed hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His eyes are likewise amber. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. Through the years after Osco was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Osco's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Fighting, Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Hematite (7 gp). Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She stands about 6'8" and wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty black coat over it. Her right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. Her green crest is knotted and matted. Her eyes are gold and beady.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Half-Orc companion (her 'brother'). Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs.

Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 4000 cp. Deep green spinel (90 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is a husky man, who prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. His feathered hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: Born in the south to a Bellfounder, Nirgel learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Bellfounder.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and he is greedy

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 50 gp.