Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Gnomes. Her skin is light but she possesses many white ritualistic tattoos. She wears a simple blue robe with white stripes complete with hood. She has a long auburn ponytail with little hanging trinkets. She has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Disease, PTSD. Bonds: Rich, Slave. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: A stocky darker skinned woman, she wears a blue costume with the symbols of death on her torso. Her red hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: When she was but 3 years old her parents immigrated from the north. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: To be a Unemployed again; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: 6'1" and muscular, this southern man dresses in black turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with yellow slacks. He wears a colorful flower in his black hair. His hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. Ûgakûga liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 600 sp. Deep green spinel (110 gp).

Description: This tall, slender man wears a violet shirt with thin white vertical stripes and brown pants. His black hair is cut short. His hazel eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: He was born into a rich family. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: She very much looks the part of a Miller. She carries a battered warhammer and tarnished hand crossbow as well. Her brown fur is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Her childhood dream was to be a Marshal, but she was a colossal failure. She has achieved small success as a Miller.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 60000 cp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1200 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (1000 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1400 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult man, he sports red clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. With bright silver hair and a scraggly beard. His eyes are brown.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He was raised in a desert tribe. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Mercenary. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Flaws: Fearful, Insane. Bonds: Religious, Nature, Job. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 8000 cp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This man wears many layers of old clothing at all times, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His auburn hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a Stetson hat. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He got into the Mortician business at a young age. His childhood dream was to be a Miner, but he was a colossal failure. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and balancing his hectic life and new mortician responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive, Addict. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Job. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs, and carries greatswords. Her yellow fur is lengthy and is close to two feet long. 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 can speak with the recently deceased. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Leaf was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Leaf fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Slave, Mentor. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: 4'1" and muscular, this southern woman wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. She wears her silver hair down. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. The war was a terrible time for her, and Thodris does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. When Thodris reached her early adolescence her Dwarf father 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 is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Insane, Terse, Depressed. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 60 gp.