Description: Standing 5'11", this woman wears a tattered pair of loose black pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. Her brown hair is lengthy. Her blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Emen grew up listening to her mother's many stories. While she appears to be a normal Half-Orc, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She has dedicated herself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and obtaining odd cultural elven artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 1000 gp. Black pearl (1300 gp). Jasper (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He has a white handlebar mustache and slicked back white hair. His skin is flawless and his brown eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. 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: His religion dominates his actions; and he is greedy

Ideals: Athletic, Professionalism. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Antitoxin. 3 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: This eastern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Her brown hair is lengthy. She is baby faced.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation she is generally quite perceptive. She notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her writing with anyone who is interested.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he is dressed in an above average manner. His yellow fur is heavily combed to the left. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He disdains his fellow westerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In his 16th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others.

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 9000 sp. Alexandrite (300 gp). Black star sapphire (400 gp). Tourmaline (90 gp). Red spinel (90 gp). Red garnet (90 gp). Black star sapphire (400 gp). Eye agate (6 gp). Black pearl (300 gp).

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. She wears a deerstalker hat to hide her balding. Her eyes are likewise green. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Mardred wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Paladin, so she tries to act the part. She does a good job, for the most part... She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Ploughman business.

History: Mardred was born in the north. At a young age she loved to build and create. She found a children's book about a Dwarf Paladin who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father; and regain custody of her son

Ideals: Disciplined, Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Job, Family. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 70 pp.