Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His white hair is lengthy. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. Pikar is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He has dedicated himself to building a better kind of golem.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Elven artifacts is his passion.

Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Family, Nature, Religious. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: She wears a brown cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. Her yellow fur is smooth and relatively long. She has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Hedonist, Mundane, PTSD. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 310 gp.

Description: 5'0" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She wears violet leather gloves, a violet jacket, and tight pants. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover her moderate length red hair. Her eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Jane lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature bow.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion.

Ideals: Joker, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 30 gp. Jade (130 gp).

Description: This western man wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His clothes are grease stained in places. His black hair is long and unkept. His ears are large.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. He always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and a deep hatred of dire rats

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 340 gp.

Description: 5'2" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Dilettante. Sporting a black mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: Norman was born the youngest of three triplets. A gifted student he started as a Miller, but he got bored and became a Dilettante. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Dilettante for the past few years.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Secretive, Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Job. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she dresses in red turtlenecks beneath a yellow coat with black slacks. Her brown hair is heavily combed to the right. Her skin is flawless and her gray eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. Harriet 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: Harriet lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the north were limited. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Masseuse they were divorced and she won custody of their son. She worked as a Miller, and she later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Miller and was forced into it by her family.

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She wears a colorful flower in her white crest. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She takes great joy in being the best Shoemaker in town.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Mijira was born on a far western mountains where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Shoemaker. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Shoemaker for the past few years.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Shoemaker responsibilities is difficult; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: Rhodochrosite (7 gp).

Description: This fat western man has a bulbous nose and likes to wear ponchos typically of a light red in addition to tight pants. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His auburn hair is braided into rings. He has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving 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 raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Architect arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and he's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Rich, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears a blue feathered hat and blue clothes. He has styled his white hair well, parting it to the left. He has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and regain custody of his son

Ideals: Philantrophist, Optimist. Flaws: Lazy. Bonds: Rich, Family, Job. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 140 gp.