Description: This woman is very fat, and very much looks the part of a Barber. She has chestnut hair. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: Born in the north to a Barber, Alice learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She has achieved small success as a Barber.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Barber responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: She wears violet leather gloves, a violet jacket, and tight pants. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. She wears a colorful flower in her brown hair. Her brown eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She became a Laborer soon after.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father.

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family, Military. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 3000 gp. Black pearl (1000 gp). Jet (50 gp). Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). Amber (50 gp). Freshwater pearl (15 gp). Star ruby (1000 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (15 gp). Black pearl (1000 gp). Brown-green garnet (50 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man has a large black mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his white robe. He wears his red crest down. His ears are large.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He has all his life been fascinated with dancing.

History: Shamash was raised in a hard working conservative environment. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 900 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This light-skinned male is dressed in earthy colors with a tan and blue handkerchief worn on his right side. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His blonde hair is matted, messy, and big. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Fonkin will drive conversation. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: He was born in a small plains village. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister.

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Family, Nature, Slave. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 22000 sp.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she tends to wear a brown poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her hair, while still mostly red, has prominent grey streaks. Her fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother 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 has dedicated herself to building a better village for her children.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 2000 cp. Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with grey colored cloaks and clothing. She has slicked back brown hair. She has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Spice Merchant who has hired her part-time. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She has recently attracted an admirer that believes she's playing hard to get.

Motivation: She has a crush on the local Stylist; and money/treasure

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Rich, Has a crush, Slave, Immigrant. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: She wears silk and lounges about seductively. She is physically well-built. Her white hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a butterfly scrunchie. She is baby faced.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: Gifted from a young age, Mara studied abroad. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the desert to a summer home near a ruined castle. She would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and she was stranded inside. Her family spent the next few days looking for her, and could only assume she was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the desert due to the painful memories there. Mara took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up quarterstaff and armor she uses now. She bought a quarterstaff and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Engraver. He keeps his long auburn hair kept up in a rat tail. He has brown eyes and a tan hat with a brown feather.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

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. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Pacifist, Gifted. Bonds: Immigrant, Family, Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 2200 sp.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned man, he likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. His hair is auburn and curly. His hazel eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and to protect his home

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant, Guardian. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 40 pp. Jet (60 gp).