Description: He is scrawny and has patchy scarlet crest. He wears black trousers with grey and tan striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He has a hunchback. He has styled his scarlet crest well, parting it to the left. His red eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. He advanced relatively quickly due to his good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich, Military. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty black coat over it, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'1" when asserting himself. His auburn hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep green.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: Az-Rans was born into a poor family. Growing up, he dreamt of becoming a Cleric, to bring honor to his family’s name. When he came of age, he applied for a position with his town's local guard, looking to work his way up via merit and eventually become a Cleric in service of a powerful lord somewhere. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature club.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He very much looks the part of a Stylist. His silver hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His amber eyes peer out from beneath his top tan hat.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when giants swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. He worked as a nervous Stylist and found it very stressful. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Stylist for the past few years.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: 2'11" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She tends to wear a large white jacket. She sports golden long hair. Her skin is flawless and her amber eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: The child of a Navigator, who enjoyed hunting, Paela was taken on many hunting expeditions. 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 set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 900 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her sickle with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She wears her brown hair up. Her eyes are red and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: She was born in a small island village. Her first spouse was a Performer, they had one daughter, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She has worked as a Shoemaker like her mother before her.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion.

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Nature, Family. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 300 gp. Brown-green garnet (150 gp). Aquamarine (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears skinny pants and wears a brown and blue robe with the hood down. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. She wears a colorful flower in her orange fur. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. She saw this and took pride in her father's willingness to do anything to win. She was granted psionic powers by her dying sister.

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

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 100 gp. Aquamarine (700 gp). Rock crystal (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears suspenders and brown workpants. His shirt is grey, and he wears a heavy brown leather apron most of the time. His white fur is still thick. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Shepherd born in the past three hundred years. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Silent lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. Recently the stress of being a Shepherd has made it difficult for him to sleep.

Motivation: Expand his business; and wants to raise his children well

Flaws: Insomniac, Forgetful. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Family. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 1700 sp. Peridot (40 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: With tan face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he usually wears his blue robe and has his sai always slung over his shoulder. His silver hair has been sun bleached extensively. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his singing with anyone who is interested.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered singing. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Bonds: Family, Nature, Religious. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 100 pp. A delicate brass dragon egg (50 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (700 gp). Jeweled anklet (3000 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (800 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1400 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (700 gp). Jeweled anklet (3000 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (900 gp).

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears long strands of opal and short black dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His hair is blonde, silky, and of moderate length. His amber eyes peer out from beneath his top black hat.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: Freshwater pearl (4 gp). Hematite (4 gp). Silver pearl (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item.