Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His fur, while still mostly red, has prominent grey streaks. His green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: Cask lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his father's willingness to do anything to win. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable.

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 1800 gp.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty grey coat over it. She wears her blonde hair up. Her amber eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: This woman loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. She is an amazing painter.

History: Gifted from a young age, Katherine studied abroad. Her psionic abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She was granted psionic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: He wears a pastel tunic with violet highlights, and long red pants that bunch up around his shoes. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his trident, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a card on it. His beige fur is still thick. His blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. 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: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Disease, Cynical, Insomniac. Bonds: Criminal record, Debt. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 11000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a brown feathered hat and brown clothes, and carries longswords. He wears a feathered hat to hide his balding. His green eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: Cloak lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. 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 is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined. Flaws: Impulsive, Insane. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 800 gp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1900 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (40 gp). Solid gold idol (700 gp).

Description: This slender woman stands about 5'6". She very much looks the part of a Guard. Her red hair is wavy and long. Her eyes are blue.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She is obsessed with her god.

History: She was raised in a plains tribe. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Hadwisa 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 Hadwisa. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Job, Religious, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. Her red hair is cut short. Her skin is flawless and her violet eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While she appears to be a normal Gnome, 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 is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Disciplined, Justice, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Poor, Attractive. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 1800 gp. Gold music box (3000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (1000 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (3000 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (180 gp).

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her longsword with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She has done her best to style her auburn hair to look like a famous performer. Her eyes are amber.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. A fanatic, her devotion to her small selection of gods is unquestionable. She claims to be doing their will and will base all her actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: Paela was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job.

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

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 2600 gp. Solid gold idol (500 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1600 gp).