Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears suspenders and brown workpants. Her shirt is grey, and she wears a heavy brown leather apron most of the time. Sporting a brown mohawk this woman's hair draws a lot of attention. Her eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Her father took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To end her boredom; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Nature. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 300 gp. Brown-green garnet (60 gp). Eye agate (8 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. She keeps her white hair in a flapper bob. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature scythe.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. Her purple hair is greasy and uncared for. Her red eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: Shax hails from a village terrorized by orcs. She worked as a nervous Mercenary and found it very stressful. She has worked as a Mercenary like her mother before her.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Rich, Family, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 47000 sp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (150 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (500 gp).

Description: She is a husky woman, who wears a robe, a symbol of the four houses of cards around her neck, and a quarterstaff on her belt. She has wavy auburn hair. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. She uses divination through singing.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She dresses in brown turtlenecks beneath a green coat with violet slacks, and she perpetually has her greataxe ready. She wears her gray fur down. Her blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Right-Handed fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 46000 sp. Alexandrite (900 gp). Coral (70 gp). Jet (70 gp). Azurite (8 gp).

Description: This northern man is wearing a long, black cloak. His clothes are grease stained in places. He has styled his silver crest well, parting it to the left. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of drow may trigger it at times.

History: He got into the Apothecary business at a young age. He found a children's book about a Dragonborn Barbarian who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He has dedicated himself to building a better village for his children.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job, Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 11000 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He prefers to wear black pants and tee shirts, and he perpetually has his sai ready. His crest is cut close to his head. He has a dull look in his gold eyes.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Nithther was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Nithther has worked very hard to control his curse. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 700 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (800 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2300 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2300 gp).