Description: This woman is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her red hair is still thick. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Merla was born with her mother's beautiful face. In her youth she was a Butcher, and wanted to be a champion fighter when she grew up. She was working during a period of war, and as one of the natives she lived in fear of joining the others in being slaughtered. She saw the brutality and swore off her fighting aspirations, taking her younger brother on her back after seeing her parents die, and fled the country. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and expand her business

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 4000 gp. Jade (50 gp). Citrine (60 gp). Sard (60 gp). Blue quartz (11 gp). Jet (50 gp). Moonstone (60 gp). Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). Moss agate (11 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (11 gp). Alexandrite (1000 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Brown-green garnet (50 gp). Violet garnet (1000 gp). Lapis lazuli (11 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a tea of some kind. He wears a violet armored body suit, with a simple blue line shooting up and back down, marred by teas. His hair is black and very short. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Nim hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his music career. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has dedicated himself to building a better village for his children.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 4000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He is well dressed, constantly wearing a grey suit, black shirt, and tan tie. His deerstalker hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: He comes from a rich western family. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 7 years.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and sabotage a competitor

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

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 1000 gp. Brown-green garnet (50 gp). Rose (60 gp). Iolite (60 gp). Azurite (5 gp). Aquamarine (400 gp). Chrysoberyl (50 gp). Eye agate (5 gp). Onyx (60 gp). Peridot (60 gp). Peridot (60 gp). Jasper (60 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (5 gp). Lapis lazuli (5 gp). Carnelian (60 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She wears a tattered pair of loose pastel pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs, and carries glaives. Her fur is short and red. Her yellow eyes peer out from beneath her top pastel hat.

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 uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: The child of southern immigrants she idolized her mother. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She wants revenge against brigands; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 6000 gp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2600 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (3000 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (80 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (80 gp). Gold cup set with emeralds (10000 gp). Solid gold idol (1000 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (10 gp). Jeweled anklet (4000 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (4000 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2600 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp).

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a fancy grey dress. She has a very tight haircut. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She hates Humans with a passion. As such she is filled with self loathing. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Sarah grew up listening to her father's many stories. She was taken from her home at a very young age. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Adventurer, Slave. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 6000 gp. Gold music box (2000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Jeweled gold crown (3000 gp). Solid gold idol (600 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She tends to wear a large white jacket. She carries a battered morningstar and tarnished nunchaku as well. Her red hair is singed and shortened. Her fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Ekk is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing poetry.

History: The child of a Bellfounder, who enjoyed hunting, Ekk was taken on many hunting expeditions. She always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She has never given up on her poetry dream.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she's in love

Ideals: Fighting, Extrovert, Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 12000 gp. Onyx (50 gp). Freshwater pearl (14 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (14 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp). Azurite (14 gp). Canary diamond (3000 gp). Smoky quartz (50 gp). Freshwater pearl (14 gp). Brown-green garnet (100 gp). Chrysoberyl (100 gp). Deep green spinel (100 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (14 gp).

Description: She is in excellent shape and is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. Her hair is chestnut and very short. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She hates brigands. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing music.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. 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. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by brigands. Bolhild was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the brigands.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and she desires to right it.

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 7000 gp. Freshwater pearl (14 gp). Blue diamond (5000 gp). Blue-white diamond (5000 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Lapis lazuli (14 gp). Rhodochrosite (14 gp). Coral (80 gp). Obsidian (14 gp). Peridot (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.