Description: She is a mite stocky and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her hair is short and auburn. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: Her divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Ostracized due to the divine powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dwarves became a terror of the countryside. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Opinionated, Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 2000 sp.

Description: This dark-skinned female wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her mace with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her brown hair is long and unkept. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She hates orcs. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Althaea was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Her parents were killed by orcs in a raid when she was still a young child. The orcs captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to orcs demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and she desires to right it; and to get a good night's sleep

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 1000 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This eastern man wears light armors faded through time and improper care. His clothes are grease stained in places. His fur, while still mostly red, has prominent grey streaks. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He has all his life been fascinated with singing.

History: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the east. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Tabaxis in the east were limited. He has never given up on his singing dream.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 4000 gp. Sard (80 gp). Freshwater pearl (4 gp). Sardonyx (80 gp). Malachite (4 gp). Moonstone (80 gp). White pearl (50 gp). Hematite (4 gp).

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. She has shaved her head bald. Her eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. 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 parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To unite with her sister; and doesn't want to be a guard and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 2000 gp. Finely wrought small gold bracelet (40 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Barber. With bright silver hair and a scraggly beard. His eyes are green and catlike.

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 kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Philantrophist, Persistence. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man wears just a pastel suit, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His yellow fur is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He always admired druidic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He wants to get laid; and wants his loneliness to end

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Slave, Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 2000 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (160 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2100 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (400 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (400 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (400 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1400 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2000 gp). Jeweled anklet (2000 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (4000 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (7000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His hair is brown and curly. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: Fargas 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 is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Born in the north to a Jeweler, Fargas learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Dwarven companion (his 'brother'). He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Dwarven artifacts is his passion; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Extrovert, Logical. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Standing 2'11", this man typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep red leather and dull grey iron scale mail. His auburn hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: Born in the west his family was never financially stable. In his 11th year, his parents were killed by a orcs raid, leaving Calcitro alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Many orcs want him driven away.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Dwarf, and stands approximately 4'1". He wears a tight fitting grey shirt and pants, and his gloved hand is found clutching a shortspear. His red hair is matted, messy, and big. This brown eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Thoradin was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Opinionated, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Mentor. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 100 pp.