Description: She is an average looking southern female in her early mid-life. She wears a grey tunic with tan highlights, and long green pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her long silver hair reaches down to her waist. Her eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: Balifra was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Her first spouse was a Animal Trainer, they had one daughter, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 2 years.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and to reunite with her absent mother

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Family, Religious. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 4000 gp.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy white stubble. She wears baggy yellow pantaloons and a black scarf. She has a hunchback. She has slicked back white hair. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. 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: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. A freak accident while working with her Apothecary father left her crippled. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and to unite with her brother

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 3000 gp. Golden pearl (40 gp). Alexandrite (1000 gp). Azurite (14 gp). Star rose quartz (30 gp). Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). Jet (40 gp). Alexandrite (1000 gp). Amber (40 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1000 gp). Black pearl (1000 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1000 gp). Black pearl (1000 gp). Rose (30 gp). Jet (40 gp). Rock crystal (30 gp). Freshwater pearl (14 gp). Black pearl (1000 gp). Pink pearl (40 gp). White opal (600 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: An older man who wears tan painted combat armor at almost all times, he is not a threatening figure. His golden hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Armorer but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when giants swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by giants. Ribbles was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the giants.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Pacifist. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 6000 gp. Silver pearl (150 gp). Jade (150 gp). Onyx (20 gp). Onyx (20 gp). Pink pearl (150 gp). Coral (150 gp). Peridot (20 gp). Hematite (15 gp). Eye agate (15 gp). Alexandrite (200 gp). Aquamarine (200 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.

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she wears a yellow coat over a brown low-cut shirt, and a small hat upon her head. Her chestnut hair is smooth and relatively long. Her blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Terse, Fearful. Bonds: Nature, Military. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 6000 gp. Aquamarine (800 gp). Deep green spinel (140 gp). Red-brown spinel (140 gp). Rhodochrosite (4 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears a blue collared shirt and white skirt. She accessorizes with a brown scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. Her white hair, when down, is lengthy. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is envious of other's things. She hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that she so desires. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: Orla hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. Like her mother and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Soapmaker. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Soapmaker for the past few years.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Soapmaker responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 700 pp. Carnelian (30 gp). Lapis lazuli (16 gp). Violet garnet (1400 gp). Iolite (30 gp). Onyx (30 gp). Golden pearl (120 gp). Rhodochrosite (16 gp). Citrine (30 gp). Fire opal (1400 gp). Red garnet (120 gp). Lapis lazuli (16 gp). Bloodstone (30 gp). Red garnet (120 gp). Moss agate (16 gp). Sard (30 gp).

Description: This malnourished man wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His brown hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: He was born at the edge of vast island. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Layabout. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Glassblower again; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Poor, Nature, Job. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. Old masterpiece painting (600 gp). Old masterpiece painting (600 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (70 gp).

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Human, and stands approximately 5'2". She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment, and her gloved hand is found clutching a sickle. She wears a top hat to cover her moderate length chestnut hair. Her eyes are green and beady.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Humans.

History: Born in the east to a Armorer, Helen learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. 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: Further expansion of business; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Racist. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 1200 pp. Rose (20 gp). Coral (90 gp). Obsidian (6 gp). Blue sapphire (1300 gp). 1 Medium magic item.