Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. She wears a top hat to cover her moderate length golden hair. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. She has achieved small success as a Fortune-teller.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Fortune-teller responsibilities is difficult; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Military, Rich, Family. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: He is lean but muscular and is wearing a long, brown cloak. His tied-back hair is blonde. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Ernest was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and to be a mercenary again

Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Religious, Military, Job, Family. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 1000 sp.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her auburn hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are blue.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She is a Yochlol in disguise. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Cook. She hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: She would like to get married and retire; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 220 gp.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His beige fur is singed and shortened. He has a dull look in his blue eyes.

Personality: Tree speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. In his 14th year, his parents were killed by a gnolls raid, leaving Tree alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He wants revenge against gnolls; and a deep hatred of gnolls

Ideals: Impeccable, Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 20 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: Her left side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears a black feathered hat and black clothes. Her blue hair is matted, messy, and big. Her silver eyes peer out from beneath her feathered black hat.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: She was raised in a island tribe. Lilith abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature sword.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 23000 cp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (300 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (160 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears pastel leather gloves, a pastel jacket, and tight pants. She wears a feathered hat to cover her moderate length gray fur. Her eyes are blue and beady.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Ethereal 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. Ethereal 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 was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and to reunite with her absent mother

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Selfish. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 300 sp.

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: She wears a black cloak and cross-gartered green stockings. She has slicked back brown hair. She has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

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 Half-Orc in existence. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the south. A serious injury left her mother unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm mother. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Debt. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 290 gp.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 4'4" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears a brown costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on his torso. His head has been shaved. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: To end his boredom; 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

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 240 gp. 1 Silk rope.