Description: This southern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She is wearing a tight brown one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. She has done her best to style her white hair to look like a famous performer. She has violet eyes and a brown hat with a black feather.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Her parents were killed by brigands in a raid when she was still a young child. The brigands captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

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

Ideals: Persistence, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 6000 gp. Golden yellow topaz (700 gp). Malachite (11 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp). Azurite (11 gp). Banded agate (11 gp). Black star sapphire (500 gp). Banded agate (11 gp). Brown-green garnet (120 gp). Carnelian (60 gp). Azurite (11 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp). Brown-green garnet (120 gp).

Description: She is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. She is physically well-built. She wears a feathered hat to cover her moderate length brown hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: Born in the west her family was never financially stable. Her first spouse was a Hunter, they had one daughter, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Flaws: Insane, Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Poor. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 7000 gp. Deep blue spinel (700 gp). Sardonyx (80 gp). Rhodochrosite (11 gp). Rhodochrosite (11 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp). Amber (140 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp). Fire opal (1500 gp). Azurite (11 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged woman is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright yellow and blue, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems, and a wedding ring on her left hand. Her hair, while still mostly golden, has prominent grey streaks. Her blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Brewer who has hired her part-time. She is obsessed with her god.

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. Before the accident, she was one of the most outspoken anti-Tabaxi activists. She was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Tabaxi doctor. She has since married many spouses, only to have them die. She claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: She's in love; and wants her loneliness to end

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Rich, In love, Has a crush, Religious. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 600 pp. Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears a yellow collared shirt and white skirt. She accessorizes with a brown scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. She sports a flattop hair cut. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: She was raised in a forest tribe. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Mason. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Depressed, Hedonist. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: Pink pearl (70 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). Blue quartz (6 gp). Chrysoprase (80 gp). Alexandrite (300 gp). Red spinel (70 gp). Chrysoprase (80 gp). Eye agate (6 gp). Bloodstone (80 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.

Description: He is dressed in a clean yellow cloak covering his clean studded leather. He carries with him a set of swords, each one with a amber on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His black hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his mother. Percival was born on a far western desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Layabout. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Percival fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Fighting, Passionate. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 4000 gp. Banded agate (15 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (15 gp). Aquamarine (1100 gp). Moss agate (15 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (15 gp). Bloodstone (30 gp). White opal (600 gp). Aquamarine (1100 gp). Jasper (30 gp). Lapis lazuli (15 gp). Amber (60 gp). Black opal (600 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Citrine (30 gp). Hematite (15 gp). Banded agate (15 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears a blue armored body suit, with a simple tan line shooting up and back down. Her chestnut hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: She is a Assassin first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: Born in the east to a Assassin, Leshanna learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. Her childhood dream was to be a Crown-heir, but she was a colossal failure. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 4000 gp. Black pearl (1300 gp). Obsidian (6 gp). Black opal (900 gp). Sard (50 gp). Deep blue spinel (1300 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is dressed in a clean yellow cloak covering her clean studded leather. She carries a battered flail and tarnished halberd as well. Her silver hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her eyes are brown and beady.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and to prove her worth to the world

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Military, Job. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 6000 gp. Sard (30 gp). Smoky quartz (30 gp). Tourmaline (50 gp). Rose (30 gp). Iolite (30 gp). Blue quartz (4 gp). Red garnet (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.