Description: She wears a black collared shirt and tan skirt. She accessorizes with a green scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her purple hair is smooth and relatively long. This red eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Her parents were killed by dire rats in a raid when she was still a young child. The dire rats captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and a deep hatred of dire rats

Flaws: Disease, Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 2000 sp. Coral (40 gp). Star ruby (1600 gp). Sard (40 gp). Fire opal (1600 gp).

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears tattered old clothes. Her hair is golden and curly. Her eyes are likewise hazel. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

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. Maynild 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: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. When Maynild reached her early adolescence her Human father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to reunite with her absent father

Ideals: Persistence, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Military. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She wears a simple black robe with tan stripes complete with hood. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her mace, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a card on it. She keeps her long silver hair kept up in a rat tail. She has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. Lezre enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Lezre grew up listening to her father's many stories. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and she wants to get laid

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Adventurer, Slave, Has a crush. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: 6'8" and muscular, this eastern woman is wearing a long, black cloak. She has moderate length blue crest. Her eyes are gold and catlike.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. Synthrin enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She has since married many spouses, only to have them die. She claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life; and money/treasure

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Hedonist, Depressed. Bonds: Guardian, Rich, In love. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Crowbar.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. He has dyed his greying black hair a little too much giving a sharp black color. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 3000 gp. Old masterpiece painting (1800 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1800 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (130 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This western woman is abnormally tall. She wears a white coat over a blue low-cut shirt, and a wide-brimmed hat upon her head. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her chestnut hair is smooth and relatively long. Her skin is flawless and her amber eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She has all her life been fascinated with painting.

History: Shaena was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 13000 sp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1600 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (4000 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1700 gp).

Description: She wears a simple green robe with blue stripes complete with hood. Her hair is purple, silky, and of moderate length. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

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 an amazing painter.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She worked as a nervous Spice Merchant and found it very stressful. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 250 pp. A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (60 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1400 gp). Jeweled anklet (4000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (1000 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.