Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she prefers to wear violet clothing when she does not wear armor. She has moderate length chestnut hair. Her eyes are amber and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. She refers to her adoptive father for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: The child of southern immigrants she idolized her father. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: To unite with her brother.

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Family, Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 700 gp. Old masterpiece painting (2000 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2000 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (80 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2300 gp).

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His white hair is smooth and relatively long. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Banker. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. While he appears to be a normal Elf, 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 has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Optimist. Flaws: Disease, Insane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 200 gp. Onyx (20 gp). Star rose quartz (20 gp).

Description: He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly shortbows and longswords. He wears a Stetson hat to hide his balding. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: He got into the Carpenter business at a young age. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Carpenter. After a long history of fighting, Rimple and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and he's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 100 gp. A silver and pearl hairclip (90 gp). Old masterpiece painting (800 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (110 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She stands about 6'1" and wears white painted combat armor at almost all times. Her left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. Her black hair is smooth and relatively long. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of brigands may trigger it at times.

History: Engong hails from a village terrorized by brigands. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by brigands. Engong was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the brigands.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions.

Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 600 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A 4'8" western woman, she is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Dyer. Her black hair is smooth and relatively long. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is a hateful person. She taunts others and blames them for her problems. She takes great joy in being the best Dyer in town.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Astaro was born on a far western plains where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Dyer. She has achieved small success as a Dyer.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Dyer responsibilities is difficult; and to get a good night's sleep

Flaws: Antagonistic, Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 600 sp.