Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears a grey tunic with blue highlights, and long yellow pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her red hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her brown eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: Audhild lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way east. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 4000 cp. Sard (70 gp). 1 Masterwork Thieves’ tools.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her white hair is cut short. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep hazel.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Gnomish culture. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Gnomish companion (her 'brother'). She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature ceremonial dagger.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk.

Ideals: Athletic, Logical. Flaws: Racist, Insane. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 260 gp.

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She wears a black armored body suit, with a simple brown line shooting up and back down. Her blonde hair is matted, messy, and big. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. A true patriot, Gorga would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 320 gp. Silver pearl (50 gp). Jet (50 gp). 1 Silver holy symbol.

Description: With pastel face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a violet cloak and cross-gartered grey stockings. His brown hair is singed and shortened. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gray eyes.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Heward will drive conversation. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Heward 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 Heward. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Extrovert, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 230 gp.

Description: This malnourished man has a large red mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his green robe. His brown hair is thinning but still full. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

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. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. A gifted student he started as a Shipwright, but he got bored and became a Hunter. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and to be a shipwright again

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Military, Job. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 1500 sp. Solid gold idol (400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp).

Description: She is in excellent shape and is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. Her moppish golden hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Born in the east her family was never financially stable. In her 17th 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 routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Joker, Logical. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He carries with him a set of shields on his belt, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. His hair is cut close to his head. His eyes are likewise gold.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He worked as a nervous Weaver and found it very stressful. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Fighting, Opinionated. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Military. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 1600 sp.

Description: He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His red hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a Stetson hat. He has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes brigands are coming to abduct people. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his painting with anyone who is interested.

History: John was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Many brigands want him driven away; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Artistic, Persistence. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame, and a wedding ring on her left hand. She wears her blonde hair down. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. 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: The child of eastern immigrants she idolized her mother. Because her mother participated in the massacre of their homeland, illithids burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. She was preparing to flee to the east, but the outbreak of war prevented her and her father from journeying east to reunite her family. Some 9 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Mialee never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Philantrophist, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.