Description: This younger middle-aged woman dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her hair is long and silver with streaks of chestnut, and is pulled back with small tan clips. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: Gifted from a young age, Duvamil studied abroad. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Gnomish companion (her 'brother'). She has dedicated herself to building a better world.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: In love, Adventurer. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 1500 sp. 4 Antitoxin.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears dull brown sweaters, loose grey pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed kukri, just in case. She has shaved her head bald. 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. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: She comes from a rich eastern family. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Expand her business; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Job, Rich. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: He is lean but muscular and dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He has wavy golden hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of specialists.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 120 gp. Citrine (60 gp).

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears just a yellow suit. He wears his silver hair down. His fierce hazel eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He does not care much for physical appearances, nor does he care much for other people. He does however care about what he wants and getting it. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: Himo was raised in a hard working conservative environment. 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 set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 300 sp. Black pearl (200 gp).

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He dresses well, wearing red shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. His white hair is cut short. His violet eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Born to a Dilettante, his mother struggled to pay the bills. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job, Poor. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 100 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp).

Description: He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 6'1" when asserting himself. His fur is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Bonds: Guardian, Adventurer, Nature, Slave. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 900 sp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears suspenders and white workpants. His shirt is green, and he wears a heavy white leather apron most of the time. His hair is long and black with streaks of blonde, and is pulled back with small white clips. His beard is blonde, braided, and well cared for. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are gray.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. 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, Gubrash 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. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Half-Orcs in Gubrash's homeland. Gubrash decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Justice, Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: This eastern man is abnormally tall. He is dressed in a clean brown cloak covering his clean studded leather. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His golden hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Veit is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. After coming to the age of reason, Veit took it upon himself to study the divine arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Expand his business; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Extrovert, Gifted. Flaws: Selfish, Disease. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 1 Chain shirt.

Description: He wears a robe, a symbol of the four houses of cards around his neck, and a glaive on his belt. He carries a battered monstrous two handed axe and tarnished glaive as well. His red hair is still thick. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. He is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. 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. Being a Stableman kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Seeks redemption.

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 300 gp.