Description: This light-skinned female is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing white cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Halflings.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Unemployed arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic, Racist. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 2300 gp. Black opal (800 gp). Freshwater pearl (12 gp). Hematite (12 gp). White pearl (40 gp). Obsidian (12 gp).

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She tends to wear a large pastel jacket. Her red fur is long and unkept. Her eyes are green and catlike.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Skirt will drive conversation. She disdains her fellow northerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: She was raised in a forest tribe. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 3'5" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He is dressed in a clean tan cloak covering his clean studded leather. His moppish chestnut hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Cockaby was born on a far northern island where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Bookbinder. He tends to his Bookbinder job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he feels threatened by others

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Sensitive, Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 14000 sp.

Description: This slender man stands about 5'3". He wears a grey shirt, with a black mid length shorts with black tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. He has a very tight haircut. His eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A freak accident while working with his Bellfounder mother left him crippled. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. This green eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. In her 13th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she feels threatened by others

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She wears a grey cloak and cross-gartered tan stockings. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her long golden hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: Aline lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To protect her home; and to reunite with her absent mother

Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Family, Rich, Job, Guardian. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 150 gp. Chrysoprase (60 gp).

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears suspenders and brown workpants. Her shirt is yellow, and she wears a heavy brown leather apron most of the time. She has styled her brown hair well, parting it to the left. Her hazel eyes peer out from beneath her wide-brimmed brown hat.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. After coming to the age of reason, Helgret took it upon herself to study the necromantic arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Selfish. Bonds: Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 2000 gp. White pearl (100 gp). Blue quartz (7 gp). Lapis lazuli (7 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.