Description: She very much looks the part of a Scribe. She is physically well-built. She has done her best to style her chestnut hair to look like a famous performer. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She struck the Scribe job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and she is greedy

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 800 gp. Eye agate (7 gp). Pink pearl (130 gp). Silver pearl (130 gp). Sardonyx (20 gp).

Description: She is a husky woman, who wears tattered old clothes. Her chestnut hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is a hateful person. She taunts others and blames them for her problems. On top of that she is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to her employer will always come first she doesn't like to hit women.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Anastrianna abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is her passion

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 900 gp.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears professional attire. His orange fur is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Pelt was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He tends to his Navigator job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Mentor, Nature. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: Alexandrite (300 gp). 1 Hourglass.

Description: Standing 5'2", this man is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. His hair is cut close to his head. His gold eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Sammal 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 Sammal. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 1200 gp. Malachite (15 gp). Deep green spinel (70 gp). Carnelian (70 gp). Obsidian (15 gp). White pearl (70 gp). Pink pearl (70 gp).

Description: This tall, slender man wears a violet cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings. His chestnut hair is singed and shortened. His brown eyes peer out from beneath his broad violet hat.

Personality: He is a Bookbinder first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. 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: Ivellios 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. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He has worked as a Bookbinder like his mother before him.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Bookbinder responsibilities is difficult; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Religious, Poor, Nature. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 1 Climber’s kit.