Description: She stands about 5'1" and dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. Her right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. She has dyed her greying golden hair a little too much giving a sharp golden color. She has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: Gifted from a young age, Emen studied abroad. Her father was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and expand her business

Ideals: Gifted, Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This malnourished woman wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. Her long chestnut hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep red.

Personality: Phelaia hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her poetry career. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Born to a Apothecary, her father struggled to pay the bills. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Phelaia grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Phelaia. Being a Mortician kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: He has the majority of his body covered in plate. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His eyes are green.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Tim's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: Born to a Healer, his father struggled to pay the bills. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him.

Ideals: Impeccable, Philantrophist. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with top hat. His red hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. Dreali was born on a far northern desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Laborer. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and he's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 1000 gp. Black pearl (1000 gp). Blue star sapphire (1100 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (5 gp). Obsidian (5 gp). Deep green spinel (60 gp). Jasper (40 gp). Pink pearl (60 gp). Malachite (5 gp). Violet garnet (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 5'5" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his hand crossbow with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He has blue hair. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He is a great chef.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Bookbinder arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His childhood dream was to be a Shipwright, but he was a colossal failure. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and to be a shipwright again

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 6000 sp. Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (500 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (100 gp).