Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized brown coat. Her black hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Dwarven conditions. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Flaws: Disease, Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She is dressed in earthy colors with a grey and pastel handkerchief worn on her right side. She has wavy white hair. She has a dull look in her hazel eyes.

Personality: She hates orcs. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. 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: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Through the years after Liftrasa was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Liftrasa's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 8000 cp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. Her black hair has been sun bleached extensively. She has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She disdains her fellow easterners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: The child of eastern immigrants she idolized her mother. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Mercenary.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and expand her business

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 1000 cp. A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (40 gp).

Description: This woman is dressed in a clean tan cloak covering her clean studded leather. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized ruby on her left hand. Her chestnut hair is braided into rings. She has hazel eyes.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She is a great chef.

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. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: To protect her home.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Guardian. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 30 pp. Solid gold idol (200 gp).

Description: She is typically in her Brewer uniform, and carries greatswords. Her brown fur is thinning but still full. Her eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Half-Orc culture. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Tricking was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She became a Brewer soon after.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Half-Orc people; and to be a spy again

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Racist, Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. Her feathered hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her fierce brown eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Ovina lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Ovina 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 Ovina. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: Standing 4'8", this woman wears just a tan suit. Her brown hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is envious of other's things. She hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that she so desires. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: She was born into a rich family. After coming to the age of reason, Jarsali took it upon herself to study the necromantic arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. After months of barely getting by, Jarsali 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: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Greedy. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 150 gp. 1 Silk rope.

Description: He has a missing left leg. He usually wears his green robe and has his sickle always slung over his shoulder. His blue hair is still thick. His eyes are silver and catlike.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. In his 19th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Fearful. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 5'9" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. Her hair is cut close to her head. She is baby faced.

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. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

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 has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Butcher.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Persistence, Joker. Bonds: Military, Job, Slave. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 1000 cp. 1 Masterwork studded leather.