Description: 4'2" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears an entirely grey suit with white socks and a vest with buckled shoes. He sports a flattop hair cut. His brown eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. While he appears to be a normal Dwarf, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Insane, Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 300 pp. Zircon (50 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Alexandrite (800 gp). Rhodochrosite (6 gp). Lapis lazuli (6 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (800 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a violet feathered hat and violet clothes. Her black hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her hazel eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: She was born in a small mountains village. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Flaws: Antagonistic, Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Nature, Job, Family. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 1000 pp. A delicate brass dragon egg (30 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (2000 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (60 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (30 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (60 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (60 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (60 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (500 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. She has dyed her greying red hair a little too much giving a sharp red color. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. She inherited a moderately successful company from her mother. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. 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 wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and she loathes her own lifestyle

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Rich. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 400 pp. Freshwater pearl (9 gp). Black pearl (400 gp). Golden yellow topaz (400 gp). Blue sapphire (400 gp). Jade (140 gp). Golden pearl (140 gp). Obsidian (9 gp). Moonstone (30 gp). Blue quartz (9 gp). Violet garnet (400 gp). Black star sapphire (400 gp). Black pearl (400 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She pushes her goals aggressively. She is also a coward if confronted.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Phann has worked very hard to control her curse. After a long history of fighting, Phann and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 2000 gp. Chalcedony (60 gp). Banded agate (7 gp). Freshwater pearl (7 gp). Black opal (400 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). Zircon (60 gp). Violet garnet (1300 gp). Aquamarine (1300 gp). Violet garnet (1300 gp). Malachite (7 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is in excellent shape and prefers to wear flannel. He keeps his red hair in a flapper bob. His amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Ulfgar will drive conversation. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Dyer.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Extrovert. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 300 pp. Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (80 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (80 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1600 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (80 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (80 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (3000 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (80 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1600 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (4000 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (500 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (80 gp). Gold music box (3000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp).

Description: 2'8" and muscular, this southern woman wears a white collared shirt and blue skirt. She accessorizes with a white scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. She wears her red hair down. Her blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Through the years after Nikki was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Nikki's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions.

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 7000 gp. Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Malachite (6 gp). Aquamarine (500 gp). Chalcedony (30 gp). Iolite (30 gp). Obsidian (6 gp). Zircon (30 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his halberd with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His moppish auburn hair is in a traditional bowl cut. This green eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing painting.

History: Oblar was born into a poor family. Growing up, he dreamt of becoming a Druid, to bring honor to his family’s name. When he came of age, he applied for a position with his town's local guard, looking to work his way up via merit and eventually become a Druid in service of a powerful lord somewhere. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered painting. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Terse. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 1100 pp. Carnelian (60 gp). Lapis lazuli (9 gp). Chrysoberyl (120 gp). Tourmaline (120 gp). Chrysoberyl (120 gp). Golden yellow topaz (400 gp). Violet garnet (400 gp). Blue quartz (9 gp). Black pearl (400 gp). Moonstone (60 gp). Black pearl (400 gp). Obsidian (9 gp). Black star sapphire (700 gp). Sardonyx (60 gp). Peridot (60 gp). Banded agate (9 gp). White pearl (120 gp). Zircon (60 gp). Black pearl (400 gp). Blue sapphire (700 gp). Golden yellow topaz (400 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). Deep green spinel (120 gp). Golden yellow topaz (400 gp). Iolite (60 gp). Black opal (700 gp). Golden pearl (120 gp). Tourmaline (120 gp).