Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she has the majority of her body covered in plate. Her scarlet crest is lengthy. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: This woman loves singing and to teach people singing more than just about anything. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Artistic, Justice. Bonds: Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 1200 pp. Blue quartz (6 gp). Red spinel (80 gp). Black pearl (1400 gp). Eye agate (6 gp). Jet (80 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 3'1" and wears tattered old clothes. His white hair, when down, is lengthy. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He is a great chef.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his mother. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 6000 gp. Rich purple corundum (600 gp). Malachite (14 gp). Azurite (14 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Hematite (14 gp). Blue sapphire (600 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Canary diamond (2000 gp). Peridot (20 gp). Emerald (600 gp). Rose (20 gp). Jasper (20 gp). Blue sapphire (600 gp). Blue-white diamond (2000 gp). Azurite (14 gp). Red-brown spinel (90 gp). Lapis lazuli (14 gp). Black pearl (600 gp).

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. Her red hair is wavy and long. Her gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with music. She constantly tries to fill her life with music. She is kind towards other women and children and will generally offer women help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to her.

History: The child of a Healer, who enjoyed hunting, Rosalind was taken on many hunting expeditions. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. She has never given up on her music dream.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Artistic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 7000 gp. Peridot (40 gp). Azurite (10 gp). Onyx (40 gp). Moonstone (40 gp). Deep blue spinel (300 gp). Chalcedony (40 gp). Hematite (10 gp). Silver pearl (70 gp). Tourmaline (70 gp). Citrine (40 gp). Red spinel (70 gp). Carnelian (40 gp). Smoky quartz (40 gp). Hematite (10 gp). Star rose quartz (40 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1000 gp). Azurite (10 gp). Black opal (1000 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with green lining and desert motifs. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her longsword, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a clover on it. She has styled her dark red hair well, parting it to the right. Her red eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She was raised in a desert tribe. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and obtaining odd cultural gnomish artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Job, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 8000 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 (50 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (8000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (800 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1200 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1000 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (80 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (8000 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (80 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (80 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (5000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp).

Description: She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 4'10" when asserting herself. Her hair is black and very short. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Cook born in the past three hundred years. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: Maiathah was born with her father's beautiful face. Maiathah was orphaned to a temple shortly after her birth. She was raised by the temple staff to care always for others above herself and to hold her god always in her heart. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and expand her business

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Religious. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 5000 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (6000 gp). Gold music box (4000 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (30 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1100 gp).

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears a black cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings. His green crest is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. His skin is flawless and his gold eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. Through the years after Baradad was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Baradad's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend.

Ideals: Justice, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 6000 gp. Violet garnet (400 gp). Eye agate (5 gp). Hematite (5 gp). Iolite (50 gp). Red-brown spinel (40 gp). Malachite (5 gp). Rhodochrosite (5 gp). White pearl (40 gp). Obsidian (5 gp). Black opal (1300 gp). Golden pearl (40 gp). Deep blue spinel (400 gp). Banded agate (5 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (5 gp). Azurite (5 gp). Star ruby (1300 gp). Brown diamond (4000 gp). Rhodochrosite (5 gp). Chrysoprase (50 gp). Tourmaline (40 gp). Amethyst (40 gp). Tourmaline (40 gp). Aquamarine (400 gp). Hematite (5 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1300 gp). Smoky quartz (50 gp). Peridot (50 gp). Sardonyx (50 gp). Blue quartz (5 gp). Peridot (50 gp). Pink pearl (40 gp). Fire opal (1300 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with wide-brimmed hat. She has moderate length yellow fur. She has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. 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 is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. The family's rival house kidnapped her sister with the intent that her sister marry their son to gain control of contested properties. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Job, Family. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 9000 gp. Solid gold idol (600 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (600 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (600 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (10 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). Jeweled anklet (3000 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (600 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (8000 gp).