Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her purple hair is braided into rings. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Religious. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: This man wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. He has dyed his greying rusty crest a little too much giving a sharp rusty color. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 4000 cp. Brown-green garnet (100 gp).

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy brown hair. His hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: He was born into a rich family. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 240 gp.

Description: She wears tattered old clothes. She carries with her a set of greataxes, each one with a amber on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. She sports silver long hair. Her green eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of goblins once and for all.

History: She was born at the edge of vast island. Her parents were killed by goblins in a raid when she was still a young child. The goblins captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to goblins demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Revenge; and a deep hatred of goblins

Ideals: Fighting, Passionate. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She prefers to wear white clothing when she does not wear armor. Her auburn hair is well kept. Her amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

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. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: She was born into a rich family. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south; and balancing her hectic life and new animal trainer responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: With grey face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she is dressed in earthy colors with a blue and brown handkerchief worn on her right side. She keeps her long white hair kept up in a rat tail. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Antinua embodies much of what other species detest in the Elves. She is obsessed with her god.

History: Gifted from a young age, Antinua studied abroad. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To pay off her debts; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Job, Debt. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: He wears dark leathers with embroidery. He is portly but not overly obese. His moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

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. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing music.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. After coming to the age of reason, Elaim 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 was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She stands about 5'3" and wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. Her right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. Her white hair is greasy and uncared for. She has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

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

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He wears his chestnut hair up. His black eyes peer out from beneath his broad green hat.

Personality: Chem speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. His mother was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 12 years.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Nature, Job, Family. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: Just what you see.