Description: She is lean but muscular and wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her sword with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She has styled her brown hair well, parting it to the left. Her blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with her old comrades. She has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature sword.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich, In love. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 330 gp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a tattered pair of loose white pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. His black hair is knotted and matted. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He disdains his fellow southerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. While he appears to be a normal Halfling, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He bought a flail and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and wants to raise his children well

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 3000 gp. Alexandrite (300 gp). Carnelian (60 gp). Hematite (11 gp). Aquamarine (300 gp). Red spinel (40 gp). Deep blue spinel (300 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Obsidian (11 gp). Pink pearl (40 gp). Peridot (60 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Brown-green garnet (40 gp). Aquamarine (300 gp). Rhodochrosite (11 gp). Jacinth (3000 gp). Malachite (11 gp). Zircon (60 gp). Obsidian (11 gp). Blue quartz (11 gp). Blue sapphire (1600 gp). Rhodochrosite (11 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Red garnet (40 gp). Chalcedony (60 gp).

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He has the majority of his body covered in plate. His silver hair is greasy and uncared for. He has a dull look in his black eyes.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Emotional. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 110 gp. Star rose quartz (60 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. Her auburn hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Born in the north to a Sculptor, Oriff learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. Her mother worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled mother and took her mother's old job. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 6000 sp. Deep green spinel (110 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A 5'5" northern man, he wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty black coat over it. His golden hair has been sun bleached extensively. His blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Târz isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Half-Orc unity. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: He is a Deep Scion in disguise. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature trident.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Dwarven artifacts is his passion.

Ideals: Impeccable, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: This man wears a robe, a symbol of strength around his neck, and a ceremonial dagger on his belt, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His auburn hair is still thick. He has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He works hard and plays hard.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Half-Orc conditions. 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 fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Impulsive, Hedonist, Mundane, Racist. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 1200 gp.

Description: This woman stands a little under 5'0" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She wears a tattered pair of loose blue pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. Her hair is blonde, silky, and of moderate length. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Althaea grew up listening to her mother's many stories. Her divine abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature ceremonial dagger.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and obtaining odd cultural gnomish artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 390 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp).

Description: This eastern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears suspenders and grey workpants. Her shirt is yellow, and she wears a heavy grey leather apron most of the time. With bright silver hair. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: This woman loves singing and to teach people singing more than just about anything. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: Born in the east her family was never financially stable. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature hand crossbow.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Dragonborn artifacts is her passion; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: Peridot (60 gp). 1 Silk rope.

Description: She stands about 5'0" and dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. Her left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. She has a long silver ponytail with little hanging trinkets. She has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: She is a Server first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. 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: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Being born in the east, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the east for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way north. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and an old rival family wants her found

Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Religious, Family. Occupation: Server

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 200 gp. Blue star sapphire (1400 gp). Freshwater pearl (13 gp). Black pearl (1600 gp).