Description: She wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her silver hair is smooth and relatively long. She has a dull look in her green eyes.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage son.

History: She was raised in a desert tribe. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She has since married many spouses, only to have them die. She claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: To protect her home; and an old rival family wants her found

Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Family, Nature, In love. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This late middle aged man wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized yellow coat and is in decent physical shape. His chestnut hair is greasy and uncared for. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. The war was a terrible time for him, and Frederick does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Frederick was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Ugly, Selfish, Depressed. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 200 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears a red cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings. He has a red handlebar mustache and slicked back red hair. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. A gifted student he started as a Slave Trader, but he got bored and became a Spice Merchant. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and balancing his hectic life and new spice merchant responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 70 pp.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears bulky white painted plate armor. His silver hair, when down, is lengthy. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: Grom was raised in a hard working conservative environment. 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 has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and to reunite with his absent mother

Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His white hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Beloril was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. After a long history of fighting, Beloril and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he is greedy

Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Has a crush, Military, Religious. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 370 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp).