Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears an entirely brown suit with white socks and a vest with buckled shoes. She has done her best to style her white hair to look like a famous performer. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She pushes her goals aggressively. She is also a coward if confronted.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. When Katherine reached her early adolescence her Human father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. 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. Katherine fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Military. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 150 gp. Red spinel (100 gp).

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears dark leathers with embroidery. She wears her brown hair up. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. 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: Born in the north to a Bowyer, Myev learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Fisher they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Bowyer, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Job, Rich. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: This late middle aged man typically wears red cloth garments or leather armor and is in decent physical shape. His brown hair, when down, is lengthy. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: He was born into a rich family. A gifted student he started as a Sculptor, but he got bored and became a Bather. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Lazy. Bonds: Rich, Job, Family. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears baggy black pantaloons and a grey scarf. He has moderate length black crest. His gold eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered dancing. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; 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: Passionate, Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: He wears a brown collared shirt and green pants. He accessorizes with a grey scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. He carries a battered axe and tarnished flail as well. His lavender fur is knotted and matted. His eyes are yellow.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. When River reached his early adolescence his Tabaxi mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: A deep hatred of orcs.

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Enemies, Military. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 80 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: 5'4" and muscular, this western woman tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. Her chestnut hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: She was born in a small mountains village. 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 bought a shield and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and she feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Flaws: Secretive, Selfish. Bonds: Nature, Family. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 200 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp).

Description: This fat eastern woman has a bulbous nose and wears a white cloak and cross-gartered blue stockings. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her auburn hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a Stetson hat. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She has worked as a Locksmith like her father before her.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and balancing her hectic life and new locksmith responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 2900 sp.

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His black hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He has brown eyes.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing writing.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. Dabbledob liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: Many giants want him driven away; and revenge

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: Rock crystal (20 gp).

Description: An older woman who wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with black colored cloaks and clothing, she is not a threatening figure. Her hair, while still mostly chestnut, has prominent grey streaks. Her ears are large.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

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. Ostracized due to the divine powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Tieflings became a terror of the countryside. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and to be a servant again

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Job. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 30 pp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.