Description: She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). She carries with her a set of rapiers on her belt, each one with a topaz on the hilt. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

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 will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Bookbinder arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Has a crush, Rich. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. She keeps her chestnut hair in a flapper bob. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. Further she is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. 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 Tailor. She's also a talented Bookbinder, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

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

Flaws: Disease, Addict. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: This late middle aged man wears baggy black pantaloons and a white scarf and is in decent physical shape. He wears a colorful flower in his dark red hair. His eyes are black.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 85. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Purson was born the youngest of three triplets. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Family, In love. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Halfling, and stands approximately 2'10". He wears a red shirt with thin pastel vertical stripes and tan pants, and his gloved hand is found clutching a nunchaku. His black hair is thinning but still full. His eyes are likewise green. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Ortegar grew up listening to his mother's many stories. His parents were killed by gnolls in a raid when he was still a young child. The gnolls captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature nunchaku.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and obtaining odd cultural elven artifacts is his passion

Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: Banded agate (6 gp). Obsidian (6 gp). Coral (160 gp).

Description: She is an average looking eastern female in her early mid-life. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her scythe with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her rusty crest, when down, is lengthy. Her skin is flawless and her gold eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Burana grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Burana. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Flaws: Impulsive, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 200 gp. Alexandrite (1600 gp). Zircon (30 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp). Fire opal (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He wears a simple blue robe with grey stripes complete with hood. His small hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He's also a talented Stylist, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 4000 gp. Red spinel (40 gp). Banded agate (9 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp). Smoky quartz (20 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Tourmaline (40 gp). Hematite (9 gp). Freshwater pearl (9 gp). White opal (1000 gp). Malachite (9 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

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 chestnut hair is well kept. Her amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. Eran is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her sisters into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Bather they were divorced and she won custody of their son. She worked as a Architect, and she later adopted a second son.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Disease, Sensitive. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Architect

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: Freshwater pearl (9 gp).