Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears baggy brown pantaloons and a black scarf. Her white fur is matted, messy, and big. Her blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She worked as a nervous Cartwright and found it very stressful. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 6000 gp. Jeweled gold crown (6000 gp). Jeweled gold crown (6000 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (170 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (170 gp). A small bag of saffron. (50 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (6000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1900 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1900 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (600 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (800 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (170 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is a husky woman, who wears a brown cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. Her chestnut hair is singed and shortened. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. 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: When she was but 4 years old her parents immigrated from the east. She worked as a nervous Healer and found it very stressful. She tends to her Healer job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: She's in love; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Has a crush. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 400 pp. Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Rock crystal (30 gp). Moss agate (11 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Blue quartz (11 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). Freshwater pearl (11 gp). Peridot (30 gp). Freshwater pearl (11 gp). Tourmaline (130 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (400 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His black hair, when down, is lengthy. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He uses divination through singing.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and to be a shepherd again

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 7000 gp. Aquamarine (500 gp). Fire opal (600 gp). Jasper (80 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp).

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Tiefling, and stands approximately 5'4". He has a large black mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his green robe, and his gloved hand is found clutching a longbow. He wears a colorful flower in his purple hair. He has black eyes and a black hat with a green feather.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Cimer has worked very hard to control his curse. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 8000 gp. Rhodochrosite (15 gp). Deep blue spinel (700 gp). Lapis lazuli (15 gp). Malachite (15 gp). Blue star sapphire (900 gp). Black opal (900 gp). Jasper (30 gp). Violet garnet (700 gp). Black pearl (700 gp). Black star sapphire (900 gp). Tourmaline (40 gp). Azurite (15 gp). Lapis lazuli (15 gp). Coral (40 gp). Obsidian (15 gp). Coral (40 gp). Moonstone (30 gp). Chalcedony (30 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp). Lapis lazuli (15 gp). Silver pearl (40 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This woman stands a little under 4'7" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Mayor. Her lavender fur is singed and shortened. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep copper.

Personality: Shadow 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. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: Shadow lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way south. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature greataxe.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 7000 gp. A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (40 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Gold music box (1000 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (500 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright white and brown, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. She carries with her a set of shortspears, each one with a amethyst on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her auburn hair, when down, is lengthy. Her violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She works hard and plays hard.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: She is greedy; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Joker, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 10000 gp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (100 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp). Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (6000 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (100 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (100 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1400 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This woman is very fat, and is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright violet and white, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. Her auburn hair is matted, messy, and big. Her eyes are gray.

Personality: Lia hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her poetry career. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

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 was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She was granted martial powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and she is greedy

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist, Depressed. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 5000 gp. Jet (160 gp). Aquamarine (700 gp). Malachite (13 gp). Eye agate (13 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (400 gp). Lapis lazuli (13 gp). Brown-green garnet (160 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (400 gp). Azurite (13 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp). Golden yellow topaz (700 gp). Golden yellow topaz (700 gp). Iolite (20 gp). Aquamarine (700 gp). Jade (160 gp). Chalcedony (20 gp). 1 Medium magic item.