Description: She wears a blue cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings. She is portly but not overly obese. With wild chestnut hair. She has amber eyes.

Personality: She fancies herself a trickster and likes to rely on her wits to carry the day. She cares for her older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. In her 14th 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 bought a glaive and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Family, Nature. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 400 pp. White opal (500 gp). Jet (40 gp). Onyx (30 gp). Clear bright green emerald (8000 gp). Hematite (16 gp). Deep blue spinel (1200 gp). Jasper (30 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp). Amber (40 gp). Citrine (30 gp). Chalcedony (30 gp). Alexandrite (1200 gp). Lapis lazuli (16 gp). Blue quartz (16 gp). Amethyst (40 gp). Alexandrite (1200 gp). Moonstone (30 gp). Onyx (30 gp). Brown-green garnet (40 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears a red vest and prefers violet and red shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Her brown hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. Her brown eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. 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: To find somewhere to settle down; and she seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Secretive, Mundane. Occupation: Stylist

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

Possessions: 900 pp. Golden yellow topaz (500 gp). Chrysoprase (20 gp). Emerald (800 gp). Clear bright green emerald (6000 gp). Coral (80 gp). Black pearl (500 gp). Banded agate (7 gp). Smoky quartz (20 gp). Lapis lazuli (7 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Carnelian (20 gp). Smoky quartz (20 gp). Azurite (7 gp). Onyx (20 gp).

Description: She is a mite stocky and prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. Her brown hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. Her eyes are hazel and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent mother; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Passionate, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Slave, Family. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 12000 gp. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she is typically in her Healer uniform. She has dyed her greying scarlet crest a little too much giving a sharp scarlet color. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic woman, Jheri's first love is herself. Her second love is also herself. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. 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. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 9000 gp. A necklace of small pink pearls (5000 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (20 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (180 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2900 gp). Old masterpiece painting (500 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (500 gp). Old masterpiece painting (500 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (500 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2900 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (500 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (500 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (180 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (500 gp). Silver ewer (20 gp).

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy silver stubble. He wears tan robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a halberd, but if one is not available he will default to his morningstar. He has a hunchback. He wears his silver hair up in a very large beehive style do. His brown eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and to get a good night's sleep

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Insomniac. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). Solid gold idol (900 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1100 gp). Silver ewer (70 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2300 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (60 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1100 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (70 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1100 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is a physically imposing dark-skinned woman. She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved.

Ideals: Optimist, Justice, Athletic. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. Golden yellow topaz (400 gp). Obsidian (9 gp). Violet garnet (400 gp). Deep blue spinel (400 gp). Black pearl (400 gp). Golden pearl (140 gp). Iolite (40 gp).

Description: This tall, slender woman usually wears her brown robe and has her scimitar always slung over her shoulder. She wears her blonde hair down. She has a dull look in her hazel eyes.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Half-Elven compassion; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Fearful, Racist. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 300 pp. Freshwater pearl (15 gp). Lapis lazuli (15 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp). Moss agate (15 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (15 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp). Azurite (15 gp). Bloodstone (40 gp). Fire opal (1400 gp). Iolite (40 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp). Pink pearl (90 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Chrysoberyl (90 gp). Eye agate (15 gp). Jasper (40 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Black pearl (800 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Black pearl (800 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.