Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears suspenders and pastel workpants. Her shirt is black, and she wears a heavy pastel leather apron most of the time. Her fur is cut close to her head. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady amber eyes.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. 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 Carpenter. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Carpenter responsibilities is difficult; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This woman wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She has dyed her greying blonde hair a little too much giving a sharp blonde color. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Ranala grew up listening to her father's many stories. She found a children's book about a Gnome Sorcerer who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She has never given up on her singing dream.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Artistic, Impeccable. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 370 gp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (500 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp). 4 Holy water.

Description: He is in excellent shape and is well dressed, constantly wearing a green suit, grey shirt, and white tie. His white hair is heavily combed to the left. His silver unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. A freak accident while working with his Actor father left him crippled. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Passionate. Flaws: Disease, Addict. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 40 gp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (500 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp).

Description: 6'5" and muscular, this eastern man wears a black costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on his torso. His crest is gold and very short. His red eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. A friendly and beautiful Dragonborn, he is rarely seen without a few beauties around his arms. Though a playboy in all rights, he is no lame duck.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. A gifted student he started as a Farmer, but he got bored and became a Stableman. He has worked as a Stableman like his father before him.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Job. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: An older man who wears light armors faded through time and improper care, he is not a threatening figure. He has dyed his greying silver hair a little too much giving a sharp silver color. His red eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: Cimer was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. While he appears to be a normal Tiefling, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, he put together a working one.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and many drow want him driven away

Ideals: Artistic, Persistence. Flaws: Shy, Insane. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she has a large white mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her pastel robe. Her hair is black, silky, and of moderate length. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and she desires to right it

Flaws: Insane, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 210 gp. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. She carries with her a set of glaives, each one with a opal on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her crest is red and very short. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Nuthra was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Her parents enrolled her in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that she could practice her psionic talents. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Job, Mentor. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: This man is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His crest is short and bronze. He is baby faced.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Born in the south his family was never financially stable. His childhood dream was to be a Spice Merchant, but he was a colossal failure. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease, Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Job. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears dull red sweaters, loose white pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed sai, just in case. His white hair is unkempt and raggedy. His eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. 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: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Server

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 220 gp. Lapis lazuli (7 gp). Sard (50 gp).