Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. He wears a broad hat to hide his balding. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He does not care much for physical appearances, nor does he care much for other people. He does however care about what he wants and getting it. He is an amazing painter.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 3000 gp. Eye agate (5 gp). Malachite (5 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is a pot bellied southern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He is dressed in earthy colors with a brown and white handkerchief worn on his left side. He sports a flattop fur cut. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady green eyes.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Stylist responsibilities is difficult; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 6000 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (4000 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1100 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1300 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (4000 gp).

Description: This tall, slender woman wears just a brown suit. Her black hair is braided into rings. She has brown eyes and a brown hat with a black feather.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She uses divination through singing.

History: The child of eastern immigrants she idolized her father. After coming to the age of reason, Oriel took it upon herself to study the martial arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and obtaining odd cultural gnomish artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 5000 gp. Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Star ruby (800 gp). Jet (130 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). Blue-white diamond (7000 gp). Emerald (800 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (6 gp). Moss agate (6 gp). Rose (80 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp). Blue star sapphire (800 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Freshwater pearl (6 gp). Hematite (6 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (6 gp). Blue star sapphire (800 gp). Golden pearl (130 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp). Rhodochrosite (6 gp). Amethyst (130 gp). Zircon (80 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She has a large brown mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her white robe. Her moppish chestnut hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Military, Religious. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 3000 gp. Solid gold idol (400 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (90 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (80 gp).

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears a blue vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her red leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her blue boots flare out at the collars. She has wavy white hair. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

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 moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Ellyjoybell grew up listening to her mother's many stories. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 10000 gp. Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Blue sapphire (400 gp). Golden yellow topaz (200 gp). Emerald (400 gp). Brown-green garnet (40 gp). Black pearl (200 gp). Moss agate (12 gp). Onyx (40 gp). Golden pearl (40 gp). Malachite (12 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). Azurite (12 gp). Emerald (400 gp). Bloodstone (40 gp). Banded agate (12 gp). Jet (40 gp). Pink pearl (40 gp). Black pearl (200 gp). Citrine (40 gp). Star rose quartz (40 gp). Blue quartz (12 gp). Red-brown spinel (40 gp). Alexandrite (200 gp). Violet garnet (200 gp). Brown-green garnet (40 gp).

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. Her feathered hat is riddled with cuts and holes. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Like her father and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Brewer. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 3000 gp. Chalcedony (40 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (15 gp). Freshwater pearl (15 gp). Peridot (40 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (15 gp). Sard (40 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (15 gp). Eye agate (15 gp). Golden yellow topaz (400 gp). Azurite (15 gp). Pink pearl (110 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). Aquamarine (400 gp). Sard (40 gp). Azurite (15 gp). Deep blue spinel (400 gp). Azurite (15 gp). Citrine (40 gp). Moonstone (40 gp). Rhodochrosite (15 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (15 gp). Black star sapphire (1200 gp). Azurite (15 gp). Carnelian (40 gp). Banded agate (15 gp). White pearl (110 gp). White opal (1200 gp). Alexandrite (400 gp). Obsidian (15 gp). Amber (110 gp). Golden yellow topaz (400 gp). Chrysoberyl (110 gp).

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears a brown armored body suit, with a simple blue line shooting up and back down. He keeps his silver hair in a pixie cut. His green eyes peer out from beneath his deerstalker brown hat.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: When he was but 3 years old his parents immigrated from the east. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 900 pp. Golden circlet with four aquamarines (3000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (900 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (160 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.