Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her hair is brown and very short. Her black eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: Phelaia was born in the north. At a young age she loved to build and create. In her youth she was part of a gang. She got caught, but did not rat out her comrades and served her time in prison. Being a Sellsword kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help.

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted, Persistence. Bonds: Slave, Criminal record. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 140 gp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (300 gp).

Description: She stands about 6'1" and has a large white mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her tan robe. Her left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. Her long golden hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. This amber eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Layabout business.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Layabout arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. 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: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she is greedy

Ideals: Persistence, Fighting. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 1700 gp. Moss agate (11 gp). Moss agate (11 gp). Obsidian (11 gp). Chalcedony (30 gp). Malachite (11 gp). Blue star sapphire (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. He is physically well-built. He has styled his black hair well, parting it to the left. His gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Blacksmith born in the past three hundred years. He is an amazing painter.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Blacksmith. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 15 years.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 700 pp. Star ruby (1200 gp). Onyx (60 gp). Eye agate (5 gp). Red spinel (80 gp). Black opal (1200 gp). Freshwater pearl (5 gp). Chrysoberyl (80 gp). Red-brown spinel (80 gp). Star ruby (1200 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). Red garnet (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This northern man is abnormally tall. He wears just a black suit. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His chestnut hair is thinning but still full. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He got into the Fortune-teller business at a young age. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. After a long history of fighting, Vassago and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Fortune-teller responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: Sard (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He has a large blue mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his white robe. His chestnut hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His eyes are a pleasant brown.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He has all his life been fascinated with poetry.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the north were limited. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and nothing but the best is good enough for him

Ideals: Impeccable, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 2000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 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 skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. She has shaved her head bald. Her violet eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Silaqui liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and balancing her hectic life and new locksmith responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Nature, Military. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 4000 gp. Coral (50 gp). Golden yellow topaz (500 gp). Hematite (13 gp). Red-brown spinel (50 gp). Rhodochrosite (13 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). Carnelian (60 gp). Obsidian (13 gp). Jet (50 gp). Violet garnet (500 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp). Hematite (13 gp). Aquamarine (500 gp). Pink pearl (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy golden stubble. He wears a worn and beaten armor. He has a hunchback. He keeps his golden hair in a flapper bob. His blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Born to a Stableman, his father struggled to pay the bills. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Dwarven artifacts is his passion.

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 260 gp. 1 Silk rope.