Description: She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized tan coat. She carries with her a set of hand crossbows, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is witty, but her monotone delivery comes off as unnerving She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Mardnab has worked very hard to control her curse. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 600 gp. Tourmaline (80 gp). Brown-green garnet (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest, and carries pickaxes. She wears her purple hair down. Her white eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Makaria fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She's attracted to the PC; and she's in love

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Mentor, Has a crush. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 130 pp. Solid gold idol (400 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (70 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1800 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1800 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears tattered old clothes. His hair is auburn and curly. His eyes are likewise green. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. 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: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A freak accident while working with his Ruler mother left him crippled. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: This slender woman stands about 3'1". She wears a white costume with the symbols of the sun god on her torso. Her chestnut hair is knotted and matted. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep blue.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Halflings.

History: She was born in a small mountains village. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She's attracted to the PC; and to be a sellsword again

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Nature, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 240 gp. A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (60 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. She wears her red hair up. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Susannah was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Military. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He sports black clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. His chestnut hair is long and unkept. His fierce silver eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Melech isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Tiefling unity. Melech is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. 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 south. He came across an abandoned tomb where he found a relic that called out to him. After picking it up he was cursed by a spirit.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Soapmaker and was forced into it by his family.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: 5'8" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She wears a violet cloak and cross-gartered red stockings. Her hair is brown, silky, and of moderate length. Her blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. Jacoba enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. 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 Herbalist. She has achieved small success as a Herbalist.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Job, Family. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 40000 cp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. He wears a top hat to cover his moderate length brown hair. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. Cockaby is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: The child of a Body Guard, who enjoyed hunting, Cockaby was taken on many hunting expeditions. Cockaby 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. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Family, Nature. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: Violet garnet (1500 gp). Azurite (10 gp). Black pearl (1500 gp). White opal (500 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1500 gp). Azurite (10 gp). White pearl (120 gp). Clear bright green emerald (8000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy black stubble. She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. She has a hunchback. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with singing. She constantly tries to fill her life with singing. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Her father was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and money/treasure

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Server

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 700 pp. Violet garnet (1500 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1500 gp). Pink pearl (100 gp). Moss agate (10 gp). Red garnet (100 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1500 gp). Amethyst (100 gp). Smoky quartz (30 gp). Violet garnet (1500 gp). Alexandrite (1500 gp).