Description: This northern man is wearing a long, tan, dusty cloak. His clothes are grease stained in places. His red hair is lengthy. His brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Sensitive, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 31000 sp.

Description: She stands about 4'2" and wears just a grey suit. Her right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. She wears her silver hair down. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Jarana was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. 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: She is wracked by social anxiety.

Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 7000 cp.

Description: He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright blue and violet, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. He carries with him a set of swords, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. He has a very tight haircut. His blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: A child with a great deal of singing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north.

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. She keeps her lavender fur in a flapper bob. She has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Ruler. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Spear was born in the east. At a young age she loved to build and create. A gifted student she started as a Actor, but she got bored and became a Ruler. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Ruler responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 300 gp. Chalcedony (60 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp). Peridot (60 gp).

Description: This woman wears tattered old clothes. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her silver hair is still thick. Her silver unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Map Maker profession.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Stableman arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She is greedy; and expand her business

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: Aquamarine (1000 gp). Rock crystal (80 gp).