Description: This southern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She is typically in her Painter uniform. She wears her brown hair down. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. She constantly seizes attention wherever she goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. She likes to think of herself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: Sarah hails from a village terrorized by orcs. Her childhood dream was to be a Ruler, but she was a colossal failure. She has worked as a Painter like her mother before her.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Ideals: Optimist, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: She is a husky woman, who wears a worn and beaten armor. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and her religion dominates her actions

Flaws: Insane, Hedonist, Shy. Bonds: Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 600 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned woman, she tends to wear a large brown jacket. Her Stetson hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Her parents were killed by orcs in a raid when she was still a young child. The orcs captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears many layers of old clothing at all times. Her brown hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. She has gray eyes and a tan hat with a black feather.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She constantly seizes attention wherever she goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. She likes to think of herself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. 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 Assassin. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Expand her business; and balancing her hectic life and new assassin responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Philantrophist, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Military, Job. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He is well dressed, constantly wearing a grey suit, brown shirt, and violet tie. He is physically well-built. His long black hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He has gray eyes.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: When he was but 3 years old his parents immigrated from the west. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father 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 left for the west, certain he would find work there.

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

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Nature, Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Fortune-teller. Her hair is auburn, silky, and of moderate length. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She is a great chef.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Fortune-teller arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Dwarven artifacts is her passion; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: She wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her mace, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a clover on it. Her black hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. Silaqui is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her sisters into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Performer they were divorced and she won custody of their son. She worked as a Laborer, and she later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son; and to reunite with her absent mother

Flaws: Disease, Ugly. Bonds: Family, Job, Rich. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 110 gp. 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: This eastern man wears a simple red robe with pastel stripes complete with hood. His clothes are grease stained in places. He keeps his white hair in a flapper bob. He has hazel eyes.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He can't help but pocket interesting objects he comes across

History: The child of a Stableman, who enjoyed hunting, Dondon was taken on many hunting expeditions. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 160 gp. 1 Masterwork Artisan’s tools.

Description: Her left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears skinny pants and wears a blue and brown robe with the hood down. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: Xanaphia was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She became a Dyer soon after.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Job, Religious. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 4000 cp.