Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. She has dyed her greying gray fur a little too much giving a sharp gray color. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She is an amazing painter.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and obtaining odd cultural half-orc artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Guardian. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: A 4'9" western woman, she wears long strands of sapphire and short black dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. She wears a Stetson hat to hide her balding. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Ronobe is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: She was born into a rich family. She found a children's book about a Tiefling Sorcerer who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Elven artifacts is her passion; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly whips and monstrous two handed axes. With a patchy black beard and wild black hair. His amber eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and 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

Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic, Selfish. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 4000 cp. Red-brown spinel (150 gp).

Description: This northern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears a tight fitting red shirt and pants. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy white hair. His amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is mildly Halfling supremacist, though he does not identify as such. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his poetry with anyone who is interested.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered poetry. 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; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Racist, Mundane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 1500 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears a robe, a symbol of luck around his neck, and a axe on his belt. He is an epitome of beauty. His white hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His blue eyes peer out from beneath his small tan hat.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his music with anyone who is interested.

History: Efferil lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the south, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the south for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He is in excellent shape and dresses like a well dressed Roofer does. He has no hair. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Pelaios was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. After a long history of fighting, Pelaios and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Expand his business; and to be a barrister again

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 400 gp. 4 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. Her red hair is knotted and matted. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: The child of a Hunter, who enjoyed hunting, Elizabeth was taken on many hunting expeditions. While she appears to be a normal Half-Elf, 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 set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Hunter again.

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This slender woman stands about 6'5". She is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. She has dyed her greying chestnut hair a little too much giving a sharp chestnut color. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Arha was born in the north. At a young age she loved to build and create. She worked as a nervous Architect and found it very stressful. 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. Arha fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Persistence, Fighting, Impeccable. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 1 Breastplate.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She has a dull look in her hazel eyes.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She comes from a rich northern family. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Persistence. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 1700 sp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.