Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears light armors faded through time and improper care. Her hair is short and golden. Her eyes are amber and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. After coming to the age of reason, Siffress took it upon herself to study the martial arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south.

Ideals: Gifted, Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 1200 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (170 gp).

Description: He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He is portly but not overly obese. He keeps his long brass crest kept up in a rat tail. His red eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was raised in a desert tribe. Being born in the north, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the north for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and an old rival family wants him found

Flaws: Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Family. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 1400 sp.

Description: She wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with brown colored cloaks and clothing. She carries a battered axe and tarnished longbow as well. Her red hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her eyes are likewise green.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. A friendly and beautiful Dwarf, she is rarely seen without a few beauties around her arms. Though a playboy in all rights, she is no lame duck.

History: Sannl was born with her mother's beautiful face. She has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: She has the majority of her body covered in plate. She is portly but not overly obese. She keeps her auburn hair in a pixie cut. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing poetry.

History: Rohesia was born with her mother's beautiful face. While she appears to be a normal Half-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: She feels kind of lost in life; and she loathes her own lifestyle

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insane, Depressed. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. Azurite (12 gp). Hematite (12 gp). Blue star sapphire (1200 gp). Star rose quartz (20 gp). Carnelian (20 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (12 gp). Onyx (20 gp). Jade (150 gp).

Description: She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. She carries a battered whip and tarnished crossbow as well. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her green eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of brigands may trigger it at times.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. Being a Shipwright 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 is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: Jacinth (3000 gp). Black star sapphire (500 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). Moss agate (10 gp).

Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears a violet armored body suit, with a simple brown line shooting up and back down. Her long red hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her eyes are a pleasant violet.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. She is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Half-Elves in the east were limited. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Flaws: Depressed, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 47000 sp. Zircon (30 gp).

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. He wears his silver hair down. His hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He worked as a nervous Miller and found it very stressful. He struck the Miller job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 100 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (30 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp).