Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right hand, he wears bulky white painted plate armor. He is bald on top and has large blonde tufts of hair around his ears. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady violet eyes.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Hoshû was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. 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 Navigator. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Navigator.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Mentor. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 400 sp. White pearl (120 gp).

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. Her hair is brown and curly. Her brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. When triggered she is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. While she appears to be a normal Halfling, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

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.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Addict, Insane. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears blue leather gloves, a blue jacket, and tight pants. Her auburn hair is braided into rings. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines violet.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Menny has worked very hard to control her curse. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and she's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Impulsive, Disease. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: He dresses in grey turtlenecks beneath a blue coat with tan slacks. With a patchy brown beard and wild brown hair. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. On top of that he is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to his employer will always come first he doesn't like to hit women.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. 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. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is his passion; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Passionate, Fighting. Bonds: Has a crush, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears tattered old clothes. He wears a deerstalker hat to hide his balding. His gold eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Valorean 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 Valorean. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable.

Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Job, Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He wears a Stetson hat to cover his moderate length blue hair. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: Purson lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and doesn't want to be a mason and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Bonds: Poor, Slave, Family. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears just a green suit. He has wavy copper crest. His red eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 400 gp. Banded agate (8 gp). Red-brown spinel (130 gp).

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears an entirely red suit with green socks and a vest with buckled shoes, and is pretty ugly. His white hair is long and unkept. His amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He is obsessed with his god.

History: Kelter was born into a poor family. Growing up, he dreamt of becoming a Sorcerer, to bring honor to his family’s name. When he came of age, he applied for a position with his town's local guard, looking to work his way up via merit and eventually become a Sorcerer in service of a powerful lord somewhere. Kelter abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her ceremonial dagger, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a card on it. She has no hair. Her eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: She does not care much for physical appearances, nor does she care much for other people. She does however care about what she wants and getting it. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. When the war came and ruined her parents she was left adrift. She was a hard woman then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: She is greedy; and to prove her worth to the world

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, PTSD. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 2700 sp.