Description: He dresses like a well dressed Guard does. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide his balding. His eyes are amber and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Guard for the past few years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he is greedy

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Job, Rich, Nature, In love. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: She wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. Her black hair is smooth and relatively long. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She is obsessed with her god.

History: Seddit lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 east. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her.

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Family. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 280 gp. 1 Bullseye lantern.

Description: She is an average looking southern female in her early mid-life. She is typically in her Farmer uniform. Her black crest is long and unkept. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady gold eyes.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. 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 has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Farmer.

Motivation: To be a Crown-heir again; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He wears pastel trousers with white and blue striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His fur is black and curly. His copper unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Shepherd who has hired him part-time. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: Born in the east to a Shepherd, Five learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. A freak accident while working with his Adventurer father left him crippled. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Slave, Has a crush, Job. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 180 gp.

Description: He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep brown leather and dull white iron scale mail. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His hair is short and chestnut. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are green.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Stylist arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. After coming to the age of reason, Rangrim took it upon himself to study the psionic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 240 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with grey colored cloaks and clothing. His hair is auburn and curly. His eyes are likewise hazel. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him.

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: This western woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. Her white hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. This brown eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. Further she is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. Ilanis was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Ilanis decided she wanted neither the life of her mother nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 360 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). 1 Smokesticks.

Description: He is lean but muscular and tends to wear a brown poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. Sporting a white mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. He has hazel eyes and a brown hat with a yellow feather.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: He was born into a rich family. In his 14th year, his parents were killed by a giants raid, leaving Kilvar alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich, Enemies, Slave. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned woman, she wears a red collared shirt and tan skirt. She accessorizes with a white scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. Sporting a auburn mohawk this woman's hair draws a lot of attention. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: This woman loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. She uses divination through singing.

History: Pearl was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. 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. She has never given up on her poetry dream.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and she is greedy

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 3000 cp.