Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears a fancy black dress. Her white crest is smooth and relatively long. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: Ruloth hails from a village terrorized by orcs. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. When she grew older, she became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. She began work as a mercenary for hire. She would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Half-Elven artifacts is her passion; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she likes to wear grey tank tops with pastel skirt. Her chestnut hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady hazel eyes.

Personality: She is mildly Human supremacist, though she does not identify as such. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Humans.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. Before the accident, she was one of the most outspoken anti-Elven activists. She was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Elven doctor. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 1000 cp. Red-brown spinel (80 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: This man prefers to wear flannel. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His golden hair is greasy and uncared for. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. In his 17th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother 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 was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Mundane, Fearful. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 190 gp. Peridot (80 gp).

Description: She is a pot bellied western woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She prefers to wear green clothing when she does not wear armor. Her hair is purple and curly. Her half smiles and silver eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She fancies herself a trickster and likes to rely on her wits to carry the day. She cares for her older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: Born in the west to a Fletcher, Shax learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Tiefling conditions. She struck the Fletcher job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Military, Job. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 180 gp. Rock crystal (20 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a grey coat. He has a long silver beard with little hanging trinkets. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: He was raised in a mountains tribe. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He was granted arcane powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac, Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 40 gp. 7 Acid flasks.

Description: 4'7" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears professional attire. His blonde hair is cut short. His eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his psionic talents. He was granted psionic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: To end his boredom.

Ideals: Opinionated, Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 1 Banded mail.

Description: An older woman who is dressed in earthy colors with a brown and violet handkerchief worn on her right side, she is not a threatening figure. With wild black hair. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. She refers to her adoptive father for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Gifted from a young age, Delre studied abroad. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Delre 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 Delre. Being a Baker 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: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 700 sp. Carnelian (80 gp).

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, she wears bulky yellow painted plate armor. Her auburn hair, when down, is lengthy. Her blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is a hateful person. She taunts others and blames them for her problems. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. She is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: She was born in the east, but her parents moved at a very young age to the west. Because her father participated in the massacre of their homeland, dire rats burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. She was preparing to flee to the east, but the outbreak of war prevented her and her mother from journeying east to reunite her family. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

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.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 2000 cp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (300 gp).

Description: This northern woman wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her auburn hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Fistula grew up listening to her mother's many stories. Fistula abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. When she grew older, she became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. She began work as a mercenary for hire. She would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Joker, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 120 gp. Amber (90 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.