Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she usually wears her tan robe and has her pickaxe always slung over her shoulder. Her tied-back hair is white. Her eyes are likewise amber.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: Vaina was raised in a hard working conservative environment. While she appears to be a normal Elf, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Shy, Insane. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 200 gp. 3 Smokesticks. 3 Smokesticks.

Description: This man is dressed in an above average manner. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. He has styled his golden hair well, parting it to the right. He has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered west to less war torn lands. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Nature. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: He wears a worn and beaten armor, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 2'11" when asserting himself. His hair is silver and curly. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life.

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Depressed, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her moppish golden hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her eyes are likewise violet. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 300 pp. Blue quartz (14 gp).

Description: She is a physically imposing dark-skinned woman. She wears a brown vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her green leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her brown boots flare out at the collars. Her silver hair, when down, is lengthy. Her eyes are likewise hazel. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with poetry. She constantly tries to fill her life with poetry. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: The child of a Bricklayer, who enjoyed hunting, Avelina was taken on many hunting expeditions. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. Some 3 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Avelina never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, In love, Adventurer. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 1300 gp. Obsidian (9 gp). Freshwater pearl (9 gp). Zircon (30 gp). Deep blue spinel (400 gp). Black pearl (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item.