Description: She tends to wear a large black jacket. She carries with her a set of hammers, each one with a topaz on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her blue crest is lengthy. This red eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her painting with anyone who is interested.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears tattered old clothes. She has chestnut hair. Her black eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Gomory will drive conversation. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is greedy; and money/treasure

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Nature, Rich. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This western man wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with green lining and desert motifs. His clothes are grease stained in places. His copper crest, when down, is lengthy. His skin is flawless and his gold eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and to protect his home

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive, Guardian. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 12000 sp. Rose (20 gp).

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears skinny pants and wears a white and blue robe with the hood down. He wears his golden hair up in a very large beehive style do. He has a dull look in his violet eyes.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. 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: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. In his 10th year, his parents were killed by a brigands raid, leaving Fulbar alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and to be a carter again

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Guardian, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: She is wearing a long, red cloak. Her blonde hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her ears are large.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: The child of southern immigrants she idolized her father. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Server for hire.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Server

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 50000 cp. Black pearl (1500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with pastel lining and desert motifs. He has styled his brown fur well, parting it to the right. His skin is flawless and his hazel eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Nature. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She wears grey painted combat armor at almost all times. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. She wears her auburn hair up. This brown eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Balifra is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: Balifra was born with her mother's beautiful face. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Criminal record, Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: He dresses in white turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with tan slacks. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. He sports a flattop hair cut. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the north. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Halflings in Oblar's homeland. Oblar decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Oblar fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Depressed, Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 1000 pp. Lapis lazuli (16 gp). Red spinel (120 gp). Jade (120 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). Lapis lazuli (16 gp). Rhodochrosite (16 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp). Coral (120 gp). Rhodochrosite (16 gp). Chrysoberyl (120 gp). Chrysoprase (70 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). Chrysoprase (70 gp). Azurite (16 gp). Obsidian (16 gp). Chrysoberyl (120 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Chrysoberyl (120 gp). Amethyst (120 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. He wears his blonde hair down. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Manfred grew up listening to his father's many stories. Manfred 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. Manfred 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. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Opinionated, Logical. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 9000 sp.