Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears a tan vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her white leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her tan boots flare out at the collars, and a wedding ring on her left hand. Her golden hair is wavy and long. She has green eyes and a tan hat with a white feather.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: Born to a Guard, her father struggled to pay the bills. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way north. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Guard they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Cartwright, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and doesn't want to be a cartwright and was forced into it by her family

Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: In love, Adventurer, Poor, Family. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This eastern woman wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her tied-back hair is golden. Her gray eyes peer out from beneath her deerstalker violet hat.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing writing.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. She has never given up on her writing dream.

Motivation: She's in love.

Ideals: Persistence, Artistic. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 1600 gp. Chrysoberyl (110 gp).

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He is an epitome of beauty. He keeps his long white hair kept up in a rat tail. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. He works hard and plays hard.

History: He was born in a small desert village. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Family, Nature, Religious. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 15000 sp.

Description: She is a mite stocky and dresses in green turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with white slacks. Her long green crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: The child of southern immigrants she idolized her father. In her 14th 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. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 800 gp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1200 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (2000 gp).

Description: He wears a brown tunic with pastel highlights, and long tan pants that bunch up around his shoes. He keeps his beige fur in a flapper bob. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are hazel.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Lone is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born in the south. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Professionalism, Justice. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents, and a wedding ring on her left hand. Her chestnut hair is thinning but still full. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: She was born in the west. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. After a long history of fighting, Criella and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Immigrant. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 1 Breastplate. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His white hair is long and unkept. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Thomas 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 Thomas. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and he is greedy

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Job, Slave, Criminal record. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: French accent

Possessions: Just what you see.