Description: This tall, slender woman wears a grey cloak and cross-gartered green stockings. Her black hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her eyes are a pleasant gray.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. In her 13th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She has never given up on her music dream.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: He wears a grey armored body suit, with a simple tan line shooting up and back down. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly ceremonial daggers and shortbows. His blonde hair is smooth and relatively long. His eyes are green and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Born in the east to a Painter, John learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. John 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 John. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and money/treasure

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Criminal record, Job, Rich. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: 2'11" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He tends to wear a large red jacket. His golden hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. His green eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the south were limited. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 7000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is very fat, and is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His blonde hair is braided into rings. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He is a great chef.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. His homeland was ravaged by war and he spent much of his life rebuilding it. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, PTSD, Fearful. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Carter

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He carries with him a set of crossbows, each one with a emerald on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. With a patchy black beard and wild black hair. He has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting, Optimist. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 8000 sp. Red-brown spinel (100 gp). Violet garnet (1300 gp).

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He dresses well, wearing tan shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. His hair is brown, silky, and of moderate length. His green eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. The war was a terrible time for him, and Gennal does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: When he was but 4 years old his parents immigrated from the west. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he feels kind of lost in life

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, he wears a violet costume with the symbols of the sun god on his torso. His black hair has been sun bleached extensively. His violet eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. A true patriot, Thervan would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Farmer they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Gardener, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Gardener and was forced into it by his family.

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Military, Family. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 2000 gp. Coral (120 gp). Chalcedony (20 gp). Red spinel (120 gp). Alexandrite (1000 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 4'10" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She has the majority of her body covered in plate. Her golden hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a cross scrunchie. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. 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: Born in the east her family was never financially stable. After coming to the age of reason, Elysande took it upon herself to study the divine arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She was granted divine powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and to protect her home

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Slave, Poor. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This man wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. He wears a small hat to cover his moderate length auburn hair. This blue eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: He was born into a rich family. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Gildmak 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 Gildmak. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture.

Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 220 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (400 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (100 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (100 gp). 1 Half-Plate.