Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears a brown shirt with thin red vertical stripes and violet pants. Her blonde hair is cut short. She has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: She got into the Courier business at a young age. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Courier for the past few years.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Athletic, Logical. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Courier

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears a pastel collared shirt and green pants. He accessorizes with a white scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. He wears a feathered hat to hide his balding. His eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He is obsessed with his god.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Spring grew up listening to his mother's many stories. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered south to less war torn lands. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: To protect his home; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Guardian, Religious, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 5000 cp. White pearl (50 gp).

Description: He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat. He is physically well-built. His bronze crest has been sun bleached extensively. His red eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He has never given up on his music dream.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he loathes his own lifestyle

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Depressed, Disease. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: She wears a tan shirt, with a grey mid length skirt with grey tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. She carries with her a set of sickles, each one with a amber on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. She keeps her long black hair kept up in a rat tail. Her eyes are likewise hazel.

Personality: She loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from her. She is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Gnome in existence. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Nature, In love. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 10 pp. Rhodochrosite (4 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears silk and lounges about seductively. She sports golden long hair. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Rich, Job. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 200 sp. Zircon (40 gp).

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He wears a fancy grey suit. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His silver hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: Oloric speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: Oloric 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. He found a children's book about a Dwarf Sorcerer who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: He likes to wear black tank tops with red pants, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'10" when asserting himself. His hair, while still mostly black, has prominent grey streaks. His blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He hates goblins. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Barrister but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: Henk was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. In his 14th year, his parents were killed by a goblins raid, leaving Henk alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and balancing his hectic life and new barrister responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Pacifist, Persistence. Bonds: Enemies, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: He is a husky man, who has a large blue mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his black robe. He has blonde hair. His eyes are likewise hazel. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Elf in existence. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered writing. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Justice, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His blue hair, when down, is lengthy. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. 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: A powerful wizard made him what he is. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Cimer fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 70 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp).