Description: With grey face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears a simple red robe with tan stripes complete with hood. Her red hair is braided into rings. Her eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: A powerful slaver made her what she is. In her 16th year, her parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Stacee alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To end her boredom; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Enemies. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 400 gp. Sapphire pendant on gold chain (700 gp). A small bag of saffron. (40 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1500 gp).

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears bulky white painted plate armor. Her hair is red, silky, and of moderate length. Her green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of giants may trigger it at times.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Mortician arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. 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: Revenge; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 2000 gp.

Description: This man is very fat, and is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His brown hair is smooth and relatively long. His red eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He has a good heart but also a terrible temper. He will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. He disdains his fellow easterners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Ostracized due to the necromantic powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Tieflings became a terror of the countryside. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 2000 sp.

Description: He is well dressed, constantly wearing a black suit, grey shirt, and black tie, and he perpetually has his bow ready. His long copper crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are gold.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Rhogar 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 was granted martial powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze. His crest is silver and curly. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her brown hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her fierce violet eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. 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 a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father 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. 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. Geva fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Joker. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. Her hair, while still mostly chestnut, has prominent grey streaks. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady gold eyes.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: Ishte was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Adventurer work with an outfit from a few towns over. Adventurer work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Adventurer for hire.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 3000 gp. Old masterpiece painting (2300 gp). Jeweled anklet (3000 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2300 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2300 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (1000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She tends to wear a white poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. She keeps her red hair in a pixie cut. This gray eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing poetry.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. While she appears to be a normal Halfling, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She has never given up on her poetry dream.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and she feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable, Artistic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She wears black painted combat armor at almost all times. She wears a top hat to hide her balding. Her gold eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic woman, Ronobe's first love is herself. Her second love is also herself. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Ronobe hails from a village terrorized by brigands. In her 18th year, her parents were killed by a brigands raid, leaving Ronobe alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Many brigands want her driven away.

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: Amethyst (160 gp). White pearl (160 gp). Iolite (70 gp).