Description: 6'6" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He dresses in green turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with green slacks. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. He cares deeply for his spouse and does his best to make sure his guests look presentable.

History: Balam was born with his father's beautiful face. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, In love. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 800 pp. Amethyst (50 gp). Malachite (15 gp). Tourmaline (50 gp). Tourmaline (50 gp). Azurite (15 gp). Deep green spinel (50 gp).

Description: She is a pot bellied southern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears a robe, a symbol of magic around her neck, and a greatsword on her belt. Her red hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. She has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Courier. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Courier for hire.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Courier

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 250 gp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (30 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (30 gp).

Description: She is in excellent shape and wears a black shirt, with a blue mid length skirt with blue tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. She has shaved her head bald. She has hazel eyes and a black hat with a blue feather.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. A true patriot, Reeza would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: She comes from a rich northern family. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Athletic, Professionalism. Bonds: Military, Rich, Nature. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 2100 sp.

Description: With tan face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he is well dressed, constantly wearing a blue suit, yellow shirt, and tan tie. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Depressed, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 600 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (80 gp).

Description: She wears grey painted combat armor at almost all times. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly tridents and sickles. She has done her best to style her silver hair to look like a famous performer. She has gleaming, smiling violet eyes.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Through the years after Griselda was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Griselda's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She has since married many spouses, only to have them die. She claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, In love. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 1000 cp.