Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She is typically in her Healer uniform. She wears a colorful flower in her auburn hair. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She thrives on attention. She does whatever is in her power to gain the attention of whomever she deems a fit date. 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 son.

History: Born in the east to a Healer, Whurdred learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Expand her business; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Bonds: Job, Poor, Attractive, Family, Religious. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 370 gp.

Description: This woman wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized green coat. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized jet on her right hand. Her brown hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. She has black eyes.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Akta was born in the north. At a young age she loved to build and create. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Cynical. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Rose (30 gp). Moss agate (6 gp). Violet garnet (1100 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp). Jade (120 gp). Rhodochrosite (6 gp). Chrysoprase (30 gp). Peridot (30 gp). Red-brown spinel (120 gp). Peridot (30 gp). Moonstone (30 gp). Peridot (30 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp). Moonstone (30 gp). Eye agate (6 gp). Zircon (30 gp). Obsidian (6 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears a simple blue robe with tan stripes complete with hood. Her red hair is thinning but still full. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She considers herself the perfect lady. She makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: She was born at the edge of vast desert. While she appears to be a normal Gnome, 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 has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: He wears long strands of sapphire and short red dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His violet eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Disciplined, Professionalism. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: Golden pearl (50 gp). Red spinel (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is dressed in a clean black cloak covering his clean studded leather. He has wavy dark red hair. His skin is flawless and his black eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Xappan fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

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

Ideals: Disciplined, Fighting. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 30000 cp.

Description: This slender woman stands about 3'0". She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with red lining and desert motifs. She wears her black hair down. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. She is an amazing painter.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. She worked as a nervous Scribe and found it very stressful. She struck the Scribe job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and balancing her hectic life and new scribe responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 6000 sp.

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 5'3" and wears a blue cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings. His hair is cut close to his head. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines violet.

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 often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south.

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (90 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1400 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (400 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp).

Description: This woman wears a yellow coat over a black low-cut shirt, and a deerstalker hat upon her head, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She wears her white hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Spice Merchant arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. When Vaina reached her early adolescence her Half-Elf mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Low range voice

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

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, he likes to wear ponchos typically of a light green in addition to tight pants. His green crest is still thick. He has gold eyes.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. Arjhan 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: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. Arjhan was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Arjhan decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Criminal record, Family, Military. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Half-Plate.