Description: She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing grey cape and mantle trimmed with soft red waves gently in the breeze. She is physically well-built. She has golden hair. Her fierce brown eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She is a great chef.

History: Ovina was raised in a hard working conservative environment. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Dwarven conditions. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Layabout responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Rich, Guardian, Job. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 290 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A 5'1" southern woman, she wears a yellow cloak and cross-gartered green stockings. Her blonde hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. Egelina liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Rich, Nature. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 700 sp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This man is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His feathered hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Nelkin isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Halfling unity. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Nelkin is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. In his youth he was a Barber, and wanted to be a champion fighter when he grew up. He was working during a period of war, and as one of the natives he lived in fear of joining the others in being slaughtered. He saw the brutality and swore off his fighting aspirations, taking his younger brother on his back after seeing his parents die, and fled the country. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, PTSD. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: With pastel face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears skinny pants and wears a blue and brown robe with the hood down. His silver hair is unkempt and raggedy. His blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his mother. Through the years after Bilbron was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Bilbron's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He tends to his Bookbinder job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: She is an average looking western female in her early mid-life. She dresses like a well dressed Dilettante does. She is bald on top and has large auburn tufts of hair around her ears. Her hazel eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She pushes her goals aggressively. She is also a coward if confronted.

History: Marigold was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Adventurer again; and she has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 110 pp.

Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and prefers to wear brown pants and tee shirts. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His white hair is singed and shortened. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep amber.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with music. He constantly tries to fill his life with music. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. A freak accident while working with his Priest mother left him crippled. During his travels, Taklinn and his party rested in a cavern that was (unknown to them) infused with powerful dark magic. Upon awakening, Taklinn discovered the rest of his party dead, transformed into horrible, mindless undead versions of their former selves. Taklinn fled the cavern, stopping for breath at a small pool, and only then realizing his own horrible transformation.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. She is physically well-built. Her lavender fur is lengthy. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 83. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. She constantly seizes attention wherever she goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. She likes to think of herself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Fortune-teller arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father 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 knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and money/treasure

Ideals: Impeccable, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 38000 sp.

Description: He very much looks the part of a Performer. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly shortbows and morningstars. His red fur is singed and shortened. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Spear embodies much of what other species detest in the Tabaxis. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature shortbow.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Performer responsibilities is difficult; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 3'0" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. Her hair is blonde and curly. Her eyes are likewise violet.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Born in the south her family was never financially stable. In her 18th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Jo fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero.

Ideals: Optimist, Fighting. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 80 gp. 1 Chain shirt.