Description: She likes to wear grey tank tops with brown skirt. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. Her red hair is cut short. Her fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. She is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Artin grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Artin. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 120 pp. 4 Antitoxin.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he prefers to wear flannel. His silver hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are green.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: Tordek was born the youngest of three triplets. He worked as a nervous Layabout and found it very stressful. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion.

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 270 gp. Azurite (8 gp). Chalcedony (60 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner, and carries greataxes. His black hair is lengthy. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are hazel.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Beggar responsibilities is difficult; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He has styled his brown hair well, parting it to the left. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Merihim has worked very hard to control his curse. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Merihim fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive, Fearful, Disease. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 1000 sp. Star ruby (1200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This northern man prefers to wear pastel pants and tee shirts. His clothes are grease stained in places. His gray fur is drawn into a tight pony tail with a dagger scrunchie. He has gleaming, smiling yellow eyes.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Quick was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Detective hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Terse, Selfish. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: This woman stands a little under 5'11" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her black hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She constantly seizes attention wherever she goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. She likes to think of herself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: She comes from a rich northern family. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and retire the richest woman in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Disciplined, Impeccable. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This western woman is abnormally tall. She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her long auburn hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. She has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: She comes from a rich western family. 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 built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: She is a physically imposing light-skinned woman. She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep white leather and dull black iron scale mail. Her hair is black and curly. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: Stacee was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the west were limited. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Insane, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: Moss agate (16 gp). Jasper (40 gp).

Description: This woman prefers to wear flannel. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized amethyst on her left hand. She wears her dark red hair up. Her eyes are likewise red. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. Jezebeth is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her sisters into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: She was born in the east, but her parents moved at a very young age to the west. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to her current location. 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: To unite with her sister.

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.