Description: This northern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He is dressed in earthy colors with a green and black handkerchief worn on his left side. He wears his red hair down. This white eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He worked as a nervous Unemployed and found it very stressful. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Barber again; and he would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a tan coat. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He has styled his white hair well, parting it to the right. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep blue.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is his passion; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Optimist, Philantrophist. Bonds: Slave, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: This southern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. She has chestnut hair. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. As she has aged she has sought to do reparations for her actions as a youth. She is also making sure that her compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Jeweler arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. After months of barely getting by, Andraste 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 has decided she is irredeemable.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: Standing 6'3", this woman has the majority of her body covered in plate. Her red crest is smooth and relatively long. Her gold eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Attractive. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 50 gp. 6 Acid flasks.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears a simple tan robe with brown stripes complete with hood. She has slicked back silver hair. She has a dull look in her brown eyes.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. Some 4 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Pyntle never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: She wants revenge against goblins; and a deep hatred of goblins

Bonds: Guardian, Family, Military, In love, Enemies. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 60 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She is a physically imposing dark-skinned woman. She is wearing a tight brown one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. She wears her brown hair down. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: She was born in the east. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: Revenge; and she wants revenge against orcs

Ideals: Professionalism, Athletic. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: 6'9" and muscular, this northern man dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His beige fur is heavily combed to the right. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep hazel.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He takes great joy in being the best Blacksmith in town.

History: Born in the north his family was never financially stable. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Blacksmith. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Blacksmith.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and expand his business

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 20 gp. Tourmaline (60 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His auburn hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. This hazel eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Bertram is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Bertram fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Extrovert, Justice. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. Her brown hair is cut short. Her gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: When she was but 7 years old her parents immigrated from the south. She worked as a nervous Healer and found it very stressful. She tends to her Healer job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and she would like to get married and retire

Bonds: Job, Military, Immigrant, Has a crush. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 400 sp. Violet garnet (200 gp). 1 Banded mail.