Description: She is scrawny and has patchy black stubble. She wears a tattered pair of loose black pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. She has a hunchback. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her red eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

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. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Astaro 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 dropped out of school before completing her studies. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Justice, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 12000 gp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2200 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (70 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (90 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (70 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (900 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (400 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (600 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2100 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (3000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (400 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2200 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (90 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (90 gp).

Description: This malnourished man is well dressed, constantly wearing a pastel suit, white shirt, and blue tie. His gray fur is kept up in a ponytail inside a Stetson hat. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Spice Merchant. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He is an amazing painter.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the south. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Bricklayer again; and to reunite with his absent mother

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Job, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 5000 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp). Pink pearl (80 gp). Eye agate (13 gp). Pink pearl (80 gp). Golden pearl (80 gp). White opal (400 gp). Jet (80 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman wears skinny pants and wears a grey and brown robe with the hood down. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized amber on her right hand. She sports golden long hair. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this western gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Margery was born the youngest of three triplets. 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. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 3000 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Jeweled gold crown (4000 gp). Solid gold idol (1200 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His hair is white and curly. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gray.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Nim's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. 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: Born to a Butcher, his father struggled to pay the bills. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He has achieved small success as a Body Guard.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and to be a butcher again

Ideals: Impeccable, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Job. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 6000 gp. Bloodstone (50 gp). Smoky quartz (50 gp). Alexandrite (1600 gp). Coral (130 gp). Banded agate (14 gp). Bloodstone (50 gp). Black pearl (1600 gp). Alexandrite (1600 gp). Onyx (50 gp). Silver pearl (130 gp). Chalcedony (50 gp). Amber (130 gp). Hematite (14 gp). Obsidian (14 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he is wearing a long, red, dusty cloak. His tied-back hair is white. He has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He's also a talented Shipwright, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 5000 gp. Deep green spinel (150 gp). White opal (1200 gp). Hematite (9 gp). Chrysoprase (50 gp). Freshwater pearl (9 gp). Chalcedony (50 gp). Amber (150 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Jet (150 gp). Brown-green garnet (150 gp). Chalcedony (50 gp). Peridot (50 gp). Jet (150 gp). Freshwater pearl (9 gp). Chalcedony (50 gp). Coral (150 gp). Amber (150 gp). Brown-green garnet (150 gp). Alexandrite (1100 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Azurite (9 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Chrysoberyl (150 gp). Peridot (50 gp).

Description: The light-skinned man stands 5'2" and has the majority of his body covered in plate. He has dyed his greying silver hair a little too much giving a sharp silver color. His green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Mortician arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His mother was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. 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: Balancing his hectic life and new Mortician responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Job, Religious, Rich. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 5000 gp. Lapis lazuli (15 gp). Citrine (50 gp). Carnelian (50 gp). Blue quartz (15 gp). Alexandrite (1200 gp). Deep green spinel (40 gp). Alexandrite (1200 gp). Silver pearl (40 gp). Star ruby (500 gp). Lapis lazuli (15 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears suspenders and pastel workpants. Her shirt is tan, and she wears a heavy pastel leather apron most of the time, and a wedding ring on her right hand. She sports a flattop fur cut. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this eastern gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. She uses divination through singing.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and many dire rats want her driven away

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: In love, Attractive, Mentor, Immigrant. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: Red garnet (140 gp). Carnelian (40 gp). Rhodochrosite (14 gp). Coral (140 gp). Zircon (40 gp). Violet garnet (500 gp). Jade (140 gp). Golden pearl (140 gp). Red garnet (140 gp). Carnelian (40 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.