Description: Her left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She prefers to wear brown pants and tee shirts. She wears a colorful flower in her auburn hair. She has green eyes.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. 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: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. Some 5 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Mardred never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found.

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Nature, In love. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man likes to wear ponchos typically of a light black in addition to tight pants, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He has silver crest. This gold eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He disdains his fellow northerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He was born in the north. Kiirith was born on a far northern plains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Sellsword. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and a strong sense of loyalty to gnomish people

Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Half-Elf, and stands approximately 5'8". He wears a worn and beaten armor, and his gloved hand is found clutching a shield. His silver hair is thinning but still full. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady amber eyes.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. Thervan enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Thervan was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 8000 gp. Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1100 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (4000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1200 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1100 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1100 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Solid gold idol (300 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Silver ewer (10 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (4000 gp).

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He wears a violet tunic with white highlights, and long tan pants that bunch up around his shoes. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His silver hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: He was born in the north. He worked as a nervous Jeweler and found it very stressful. He tends to his Jeweler job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Jeweler responsibilities is difficult; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Insomniac, Impulsive. Bonds: Slave, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 800 sp. 1 Healer’s kit.

Description: He wears white leather gloves, a white jacket, and tight pants. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. He wears his black hair up in a very large beehive style do. His gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He is obsessed with his god.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Religious, Mentor, Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 900 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing tan cape and mantle trimmed with soft black waves gently in the breeze. His hair is chestnut and very short. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Halimath is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Engraver arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He married young, but lost his spouse to gnolls. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls; and he feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Athletic, Extrovert. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 1100 sp. Violet garnet (600 gp).

Description: Standing 4'1", this man wears a brown shirt with thin black vertical stripes and grey pants. He has styled his auburn hair well, parting it to the left. His violet eyes peer out from beneath his Stetson brown hat.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. He is afraid of men and trembles around them

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Erias liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 800 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.