Description: A 3'6" northern woman, she wears a tan armored body suit, with a simple black line shooting up and back down. Her hair is red, silky, and of moderate length. Her gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: When she was but 4 years old her parents immigrated from the north. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and she uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty tan coat over it. He has shaved his head bald. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Thervan was born the youngest of three triplets. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his father's willingness to do anything to win. Being a Shepherd kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 50 pp. Bloodstone (50 gp). Deep blue spinel (400 gp). Lapis lazuli (16 gp).

Description: She is lean but muscular and is dressed in a clean black cloak covering her clean studded leather. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. She is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. 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. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Military, Mentor. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 80 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp).

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears long strands of topaz and short brown dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. He wears a deerstalker hat to hide his balding. His blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Guard. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Justice, Artistic. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 100 gp. Black pearl (400 gp). Aquamarine (400 gp). White pearl (130 gp). 1 Half-Plate. 1 Breastplate. 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. She carries with her a set of clubs, each one with a emerald on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her brown hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are blue.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 99. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east.

Ideals: Fighting, Opinionated, Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Full Plate.