Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears a fancy white dress. She has styled her chestnut hair well, parting it to the left. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Born in the west to a Healer, Hrathy learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. In her 13th 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. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls; and expand her business

Flaws: Shy, Insomniac, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 300 sp. Red spinel (70 gp).

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She sports black clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. Her chestnut hair is knotted and matted. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. 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: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Guard. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Guard for hire.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and balancing her hectic life and new guard responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Philantrophist, Fighting. Bonds: Nature, Job, Family. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: Golden yellow topaz (300 gp).

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Humans. His skin is light but he possesses many pastel ritualistic tattoos. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His white hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His gray eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Painter. 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, Reynard is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

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. 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 Painter. He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and balancing his hectic life and new painter responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Justice, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: He is wearing a long, brown cloak. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His long red hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes are hazel.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Seamstress hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down.

Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He wears bulky black painted plate armor. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy silver hair. He has violet eyes and a black hat with a grey feather.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. A serious injury left his mother unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm mother. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and expand his business

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Mundane, Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Debt. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 40 gp. Brown-green garnet (60 gp).

Description: He wears professional attire. His auburn hair is knotted and matted. His eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Selfish, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she is wearing a tight grey one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. She sports a flattop hair cut. She has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing poetry.

History: Nurkara was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. She has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. She has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Animal Trainer. She hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: She's attracted to the PC; and wants her loneliness to end

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Poor. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 60 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This slender man stands about 6'4". He is renowned for his bright black suits and hats. His long black hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes are green.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Sellsword but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: Born in the west to a Sellsword, Kugáluga learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. 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 unsatisfied with his job.

Ideals: Optimist, Pacifist. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 120 pp. Chrysoberyl (160 gp). Silver pearl (160 gp). Moss agate (4 gp).

Description: With yellow face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears suspenders and blue workpants. Her shirt is black, and she wears a heavy blue leather apron most of the time. She wears her chestnut hair up in a very large beehive style do. This gray eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her father.

History: Bimpnottin was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. Being a Mercenary kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and 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, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 140 gp.