Description: She is in excellent shape and is dressed in an above average manner. She sports red long hair. Her eyes are a pleasant brown.

Personality: While she is on the job, she is grim and serious. She understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. She takes great joy in being the best Bricklayer in town.

History: She comes from a rich southern family. Her childhood dream was to be a Performer, but she was a colossal failure. She tends to her Bricklayer job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and to be a performer again

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Job, Rich. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This woman is dressed in earthy colors with a white and tan handkerchief worn on her right side. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her hair is brown, silky, and of moderate length. Her green eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. Merla is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her sisters into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Military. Occupation: Actor

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. Alexandrite (1000 gp). Zircon (80 gp). Chrysoberyl (130 gp). Golden pearl (130 gp). Blue quartz (4 gp).

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears just a grey suit. His auburn hair is unkempt and raggedy. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: Everard was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 50 gp. Iolite (60 gp).

Description: Standing 5'11", this man wears black leather gloves, a black jacket, and tight pants. His blonde hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He worked as a nervous Blacksmith and found it very stressful. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Joker, Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 900 gp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (180 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright green and black, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His dark red hair is lengthy. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines silver.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. His parents enrolled him in a Aristocrat school at a young age so that he could practice his martial talents. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Extrovert, Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 200 pp. Banded agate (12 gp). Moss agate (12 gp). Obsidian (12 gp). Jet (90 gp). Amethyst (90 gp). Aquamarine (900 gp). Smoky quartz (50 gp). Jasper (50 gp). Pink diamond (2000 gp). Bloodstone (50 gp).