Description: 3'9" and muscular, this eastern woman is typically in her Fisher uniform. Her moppish black hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her eyes are green and beady.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: Born in the east to a Fisher, Mardred learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. Her childhood dream was to be a Spy, but she was a colossal failure. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Fisher.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and expand her business

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 300 gp.

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 hair is golden and very short. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: Brakka was born with her father's beautiful face. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of specialists.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: She wears a white costume with the symbols of magic on her torso, and she perpetually has her scythe ready. Her long silver hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She is a great chef.

History: She was born at the edge of vast island. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She bought a scythe and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Secretive. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: Red garnet (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears a tattered pair of loose blue pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her eyes are amber and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 50. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. She is obsessed with her god.

History: She was born in the east, but her parents moved at a very young age to the north. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions.

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 60 pp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears a black collared shirt and tan pants. He accessorizes with a grey scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His red crest is smooth and relatively long. His eyes are likewise gold.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of goblins may trigger it at times.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Quarethon grew up listening to his mother's many stories. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Tabaxi companion (his 'brother'). He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to goblins demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Revenge; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (1000 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (1000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she prefers to wear flannel. She wears her white hair up. Her half smiles and violet eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Soapmaker. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: The child of eastern immigrants she idolized her father. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Soapmaker work with an outfit from a few towns over. Soapmaker work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Halfling artifacts is her passion; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 29000 sp.

Description: She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. She carries a battered greataxe and tarnished rapier as well. Her golden hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. 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: The child of western immigrants she idolized her mother. She worked as a nervous Herbalist and found it very stressful. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 11000 sp.