Description: This woman is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized opal on her left hand. She has slicked back silver hair. Her eyes are amber.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. She has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. 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: She has money and likes to spend it; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 170 pp. Deep green spinel (60 gp). Chalcedony (80 gp). Amber (60 gp). Banded agate (5 gp). Jet (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a tight fitting black shirt and pants. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. She has styled her blue crest well, parting it to the right. Her gold eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

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 susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: She comes from a rich northern family. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down.

Flaws: Mundane, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 1700 gp. Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp).

Description: This man wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy silver hair. His amber eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: Born to a Doctor, his father struggled to pay the bills. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Guard. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Guard.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: In love, Poor, Job. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 3000 sp. Violet garnet (500 gp). Red-brown spinel (90 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp).

Description: She is a pot bellied northern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She dresses in grey turtlenecks beneath a red coat with white slacks. Her golden hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined, Philantrophist. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a tattered pair of loose black pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. Her crest is rusty, silky, and of moderate length. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Server. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered writing. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and balancing her hectic life and new server responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Server

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1600 gp).

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her long red hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her skin is flawless and her amber eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. A friendly and beautiful Dwarf, she is rarely seen without a few beauties around her arms. Though a playboy in all rights, she is no lame duck.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A freak accident while working with her Sailor mother left her crippled. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Sensitive, Disease, Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 200 gp. Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Azurite (16 gp). Freshwater pearl (16 gp). Pink pearl (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears a black tunic with blue highlights, and long white pants that bunch up around his shoes. He sports a flattop hair cut. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: Ar-Karo is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Depressed, Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 200 gp.