Description: This younger middle-aged woman is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest, and a wedding ring on her left hand. She has moderate length brown hair. She has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Eloise grew up listening to her mother's many stories. She has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature warhammer.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Tiefling people; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Professionalism, Artistic. Flaws: Shy, Racist. Bonds: In love, Adventurer. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 70000 cp. Obsidian (9 gp). Violet garnet (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a yellow vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her brown leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her yellow boots flare out at the collars, and she perpetually has her warhammer ready. Her golden hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Her divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Melissa fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Fighting, Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 100 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp). Silver ewer (90 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (300 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (300 gp).

Description: She wears just a white suit, and carries longbows. Her long chestnut hair reaches down to her waist. Her skin is flawless and her blue eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Interpreter profession.

History: Born to a Interpreter, her father struggled to pay the bills. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Actor. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Poor. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 200 pp. Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (100 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1800 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she is typically in her Fortune-teller uniform. Her black hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. She also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Her first spouse was a Miner, they had one daughter, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Has a crush, Rich, Family. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 1800 sp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (400 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (400 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She stands about 5'4" and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. Her purple hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. This gold eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and she is greedy

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Opinionated. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He wears skinny pants and wears a black and red robe with the hood down. He carries with him a set of halberds on his belt, each one with a topaz on the hilt. His blue hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His eyes are likewise red. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is obsessed with his god.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. In his youth he was a Glassblower, and wanted to be a champion fighter when he grew up. He was working during a period of war, and as one of the natives he lived in fear of joining the others in being slaughtered. He saw the brutality and swore off his fighting aspirations, taking his younger brother on his back after seeing his parents die, and fled the country. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, PTSD. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: Standing 6'3", this woman wears light armors faded through time and improper care. Her red hair is matted, messy, and big. Her eyes are white and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She is an amazing painter.

History: Born in the east her family was never financially stable. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She was granted arcane powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and a deep hatred of gnolls

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 8000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.