Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has a long golden beard with little hanging trinkets. His hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He uses divination through singing.

History: His divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His divine abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 140 gp. Freshwater pearl (9 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright brown and pastel, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. She has black hair. Her brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. In her 15th year, her parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Oriel alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. After months of barely getting by, Oriel managed to ambush a major caravan with a load of valuables. Instantly wealthy, she made her way to the capital under a new identity.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 80 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. She wears a blue broad hat and blue clothes. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her auburn hair is braided into rings. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Dalaba liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Slave, Nature, Religious, Job. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: She wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. She has red hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: The child of eastern immigrants she idolized her father. She moved out north to avoid the crime she committed. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 9 years.

Motivation: She would like to get married and retire; and seeks redemption

Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Nature, Job, Immigrant, Criminal record, Has a crush. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 160 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: With blue face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears a fancy red dress. She keeps her blonde hair in a pixie cut. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Her mother was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and she feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Opinionated, Artistic, Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. Her purple hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Sage arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Kallista grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Kallista. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable.

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: He tends to wear a brown poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His hair is white and very short. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He has a good heart but also a terrible temper. He will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Nordak hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dwarves became a terror of the countryside. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Enemies, Family. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 1 Chain shirt.

Description: This light-skinned female is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. With bright blonde hair. Her hazel eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. Traulam enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She was granted psionic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and to reunite with her absent father

Ideals: Opinionated, Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: She is a husky woman, who prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. She has done her best to style her golden hair to look like a famous performer. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Gifted from a young age, Bimpnottin studied abroad. When the war came and ruined her parents she was left adrift. She was a hard woman then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. Being a Dilettante kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist, PTSD. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 20 gp.