Description: This woman is dressed in an above average manner. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized ruby on her right hand. She has moderate length chestnut hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: Valanthe was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She worked as a nervous Carter and found it very stressful. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: She is lean but muscular and is typically in her Shipwright uniform. She wears a Stetson hat to cover her moderate length blonde hair. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines violet.

Personality: Lia hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her singing career. She has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: Lia was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, Disease. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 2000 gp. White pearl (160 gp). Iolite (40 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp). Black opal (700 gp). Obsidian (8 gp). Banded agate (8 gp). Zircon (40 gp). Chrysoberyl (160 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her long blue hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. She has a dull look in her red eyes.

Personality: She believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Decarabia was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Shy, Depressed. Bonds: Nature, Mentor. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (180 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). 1 Antitoxin.

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears a simple grey robe with tan stripes complete with hood. His hair, while still mostly brown, has prominent grey streaks. His amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. Richard abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He wants to get laid; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Military, Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: She wears a worn and beaten armor. Her red hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. She has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: She considers herself the perfect lady. She makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Humans became a terror of the countryside. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and nothing but the best is good enough for her

Ideals: Impeccable, Logical, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Guardian. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he prefers to wear tan clothing when he does not wear armor. He has moderate length blonde hair. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He thrives on attention. He does whatever is in his power to gain the attention of whomever he deems a fit date. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: Jabbie was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He is content; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Insane, Addict, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 20 pp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman very much looks the part of a Laborer, and a wedding ring on her right hand. She has styled her gray fur well, parting it to the right. Her eyes are hazel and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her singing with anyone who is interested.

History: Left-Handed lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her first spouse was a Scribe, they had one son, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Bonds: Job, In love, Family. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: Citrine (70 gp). Rich purple corundum (800 gp).

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a robe, a symbol of the sun god around his neck, and a mace on his belt. He wears his black hair up in a very large beehive style do. His eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He was raised in a desert tribe. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 1000 gp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (110 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (4000 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (110 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman stands a little under 5'7" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her fur is brown and curly. Her eyes are a pleasant yellow.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Ploughman. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She worked as a nervous Ploughman and found it very stressful. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: To be a Dilettante again; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Guardian. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 400 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). 4 Smokesticks. 1 Everburning torch. 1 Tanglefoot bags.