Description: He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing white cape and mantle trimmed with soft violet waves gently in the breeze. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He has a long brown beard with little hanging trinkets. His gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. As he has aged he has sought to do reparations for his actions as a youth. He is also making sure that his compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Butcher arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable.

Ideals: Passionate, Justice, Logical. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 600 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (5 gp). Citrine (80 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). Jade (160 gp). Bloodstone (80 gp). Sard (80 gp). Deep green spinel (160 gp).

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. She keeps her lavender fur in a pixie cut. Her green eyes peer out from beneath her wide-brimmed brown hat.

Personality: Elegant hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her dancing career. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic, Logical, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 33000 sp. 1 Silver holy symbol. 1 Backpack. 1 Simple lock. 1 Magnifying glass.

Description: She wears just a pastel suit. She is portly but not overly obese. Her beige fur is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her blue eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: Born in the south to a Engraver, Kite learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Engraver. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She tends to wear a blue poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her wide-brimmed hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

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. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: She was raised in a plains tribe. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military, Nature. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: 3'3" and muscular, this eastern woman has a large blue mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her brown robe. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: Yebe hails from a village terrorized by brigands. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to brigands demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Many brigands want her driven away; and she wants revenge against brigands

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Insane, Impulsive. Bonds: Enemies, Slave. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 4000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane, and he perpetually has his sword ready. His brown hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a card scrunchie. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady blue eyes.

Personality: Grisha speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Grisha was born into a poor family. Growing up, he dreamt of becoming a Druid, 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 Druid in service of a powerful lord somewhere. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Half-Orc companion (his 'brother'). He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature sword.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 200 gp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (50 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (600 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears tattered old clothes. His lavender fur is drawn into a tight pony tail with a cross scrunchie. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, she is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. With wild golden hair. She has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: She was born in the north. Pennie was born on a far northern plains where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Engraver. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 1000 sp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a pastel cloak and cross-gartered white stockings. His white fur is unkempt and raggedy. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are amber.

Personality: He is a Dilettante first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Gifted from a young age, Skirt studied abroad. A gifted student he started as a Bricklayer, but he got bored and became a Dilettante. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

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

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 1700 gp.