Description: She wears just a pastel suit, and carries swords. She wears a small hat to hide her balding. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Born in the east her family was never financially stable. When Spear reached her early adolescence her Tabaxi father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Military. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 1200 gp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her red hair is smooth and relatively long. Her eyes are black and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Half-Orc culture. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. After a long history of fighting, Markosian and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Half-Orc compassion.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Racist, Antagonistic. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Excited and jittery

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

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She prefers to wear flannel. She wears a small hat to cover her moderate length cinnamon fur. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. 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: The child of northern immigrants she idolized her mother. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and retire the richest woman in the north

Ideals: Athletic, Pacifist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 120 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp).

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are violet.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He became a Merchant soon after.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and balancing his hectic life and new merchant responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Military, Job. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 1100 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He tends to wear a large black jacket. He is portly but not overly obese. He keeps his silver crest in a pixie cut. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Dazzazn is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Doctor but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. His childhood dream was to be a Shoemaker, but he was a colossal failure. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Extrovert, Pacifist. Bonds: Mentor, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 1800 gp. Sard (80 gp). Deep green spinel (50 gp). Lapis lazuli (14 gp). Coral (50 gp). Bloodstone (80 gp).