Description: This late middle aged man prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman and is in decent physical shape. His hair, while still mostly black, has prominent grey streaks. His red eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: Cairn was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. 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 unsatisfied with his job; and balancing his hectic life and new miner responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Rich, Job, Attractive. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 1300 gp. Sard (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man wears baggy green pantaloons and a blue scarf, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He has no hair. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: Balam was born in the east. At a young age he loved to build and create. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. 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: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Shy. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Baker

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 1400 gp. A roughly beaten golden orb (180 gp). Gold music box (2000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Gnomes. Her skin is light but she possesses many yellow ritualistic tattoos. She wears a tan collared shirt and yellow skirt. She accessorizes with a grey scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. Her white hair is braided into rings. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Lorilla was born in the west. At a young age she loved to build and create. Her arcane abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Logical, Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Shy. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 11000 sp. Rich purple corundum (500 gp). Deep green spinel (50 gp). Zircon (20 gp). Red garnet (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears a tattered pair of loose red pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. His long white hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His amber eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: She wears a brown Stetson hat and brown clothes, and carries clubs. Her black hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Melissa is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She got into the Gardener business at a young age. 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 Gardener. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Fighting, Justice, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 23000 sp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a robe, a symbol of strength around her neck, and a shortspear on her belt. Her black crest is still thick. Her red eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Chassath was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Chassath decided she wanted neither the life of her father nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. She has shaved her head bald. Her blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is mildly Elf supremacist, though she does not identify as such. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. She worked as a nervous Unemployed and found it very stressful. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Racist, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Job. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is a physically imposing light-skinned woman. She wears a tan shirt, with a black mid length skirt with black tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. Her silver hair is singed and shortened. Her eyes are violet.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave, Religious. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This northern man wears a green deerstalker hat and green clothes. His clothes are grease stained in places. He sports a flattop hair cut. His eyes are likewise silver. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. 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 in a small desert village. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Tieflings in the north were limited. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: He made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and he wants to get laid

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 8000 gp. Black pearl (800 gp). Eye agate (4 gp). Carnelian (70 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Silver pearl (90 gp). Peridot (70 gp). Banded agate (4 gp). Pink pearl (90 gp). Brown-green garnet (90 gp). Citrine (70 gp). Peridot (70 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.