Description: An older man who wears a fancy tan suit, he is not a threatening figure. He wears his silver hair up in a very large beehive style do. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

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 is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: Qualen was born with his father's beautiful face. He always admired druidic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist, Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 600 gp. Malachite (5 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his scimitar with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His hair is cut close to his head. He has gold eyes and a black hat with a green feather.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He wants to get laid; and he would like to get married and retire

Flaws: Sensitive, Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Has a crush. Occupation: Unemployed

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

Possessions: 150 pp.

Description: She typically wears grey cloth garments or leather armor. She has done her best to style her red hair to look like a famous performer. Her eyes are brown and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She is kind towards other women and children and will generally offer women help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to her.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Helgret was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Actor. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Merchant again; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Joker, Philantrophist, Fighting. Bonds: Mentor, Job. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 110 pp.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 4'8" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears yellow robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a club, but if one is not available she will default to her greataxe. Her auburn hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her eyes are likewise amber. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

History: Gifted from a young age, Mella studied abroad. After coming to the age of reason, Mella took it upon herself to study the martial arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To clean up the streets.

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 180 gp. 1 Masterwork Musical instrument.

Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He wears a worn and beaten armor. He keeps his golden hair in a flapper bob. His eyes are blue.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: To protect his home; and money/treasure

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Family, Guardian. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 5000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She very much looks the part of a Shoemaker. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her halberd, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a cross on it. Her black fur has been sun bleached extensively. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are blue.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions.

Ideals: Disciplined, Logical. Bonds: Job, In love, Religious. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 600 gp. Sardonyx (70 gp). Black opal (900 gp). Azurite (12 gp). Lapis lazuli (12 gp). Rose (70 gp). Sard (70 gp). Obsidian (12 gp).

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty tan coat over it, and is pretty ugly. His white hair is braided into rings. He has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Cook arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. In his 18th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive, Fearful. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 2600 sp. 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears bulky red painted plate armor. His golden hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His violet eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Adventurer.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Military. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: This slender woman stands about 6'4". She is wearing a long, green cloak. She wears a colorful flower in her chestnut hair. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She pushes her goals aggressively. She is also a coward if confronted.

History: She was raised in a plains tribe. Rieta was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Rieta decided she wanted neither the life of her mother nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 3000 gp. Black opal (1100 gp). Jet (150 gp). Aquamarine (1400 gp). Lapis lazuli (6 gp). Obsidian (6 gp). Violet garnet (1400 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.