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: He wears a red collared shirt and blue pants. He accessorizes with a black scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. He has moderate length golden hair. His eyes are blue.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He takes great joy in being the best Gardener in town.

History: Faran was raised in a hard working conservative environment. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. He bought a quarterstaff and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and further expansion of business

Flaws: PTSD, Fearful. Bonds: Guardian, Job, Nature. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she is wearing a long, grey, dusty cloak. She wears her silver hair up in a very large beehive style do. She has a dull look in her blue eyes.

Personality: Helja is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Dwarves.

History: Helja was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Dwarven conditions. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Half-Orc compassion; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Flaws: Depressed, Racist. Bonds: Poor, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: Silver ewer (100 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (500 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp).

Description: She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly glaives and bastard swords. She has wavy white hair. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Architect arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Loopmottin was born on a far northern forest where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Architect. She leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever she goes.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Bonds: Criminal record, Attractive, Job, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 7000 sp. Silver pearl (80 gp).

Description: This western man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright white and brown, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His white hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: Ar-Beka speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: Ar-Beka was born the youngest of three triplets. His arcane abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: Expand his business; and doesn't want to be a laborer and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job, Family. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Crowbar.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He wears a worn and beaten armor. He has wavy golden hair. He has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He uses divination through singing.

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 took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Dwarves in the north were limited. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 2000 gp. A necklace of small pink pearls (6000 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp). Jeweled gold crown (3000 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (180 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.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She wears a white vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her green leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her white boots flare out at the collars. She keeps her long red hair kept up in a rat tail. Her eyes are violet and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While she appears to be a normal Half-Orc, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Lazy, Insane. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 1600 pp. Blue quartz (7 gp). Brown-green garnet (60 gp). Star ruby (1000 gp). Emerald (1000 gp). Deep blue spinel (400 gp). Alexandrite (400 gp).

Description: This late middle aged man wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame and is in decent physical shape. His hair is white and curly. His eyes are white and catlike.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: A powerful brothel owner made him what he is. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Raam grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Raam. He was granted druidic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Joker, Gifted, Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Mentor. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 500 sp. Azurite (4 gp).

Description: He is lean but muscular and tends to wear a blue poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He has done his best to style his auburn hair to look like a famous performer. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. He cares deeply for his spouse and does his best to make sure his guests look presentable.

History: Sapply hails from a village terrorized by goblins. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by goblins. Sapply was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the goblins.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: In love, Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 1100 gp. Red garnet (120 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Jade (120 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.