Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. She wears a deerstalker hat to hide her balding. Her hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: This woman loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: She comes from a rich southern family. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She has never given up on her painting dream.

Motivation: She is greedy; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: A small bag of saffron. (90 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This western woman wears a green vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her brown leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her green boots flare out at the collars. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She keeps her brass crest in a pixie cut. Her red eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 300 gp. An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (10 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp).

Description: 5'2" and muscular, this western man prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He sports a flattop fur cut. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are green.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

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. Jade abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature shield.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her hammer with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She keeps her long silver crest kept up in a rat tail. Her eyes are gold and beady.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: When she was but 7 years old her parents immigrated from the east. Her necromantic abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Selfish. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Cook

Voice: American accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She wears a tight fitting black shirt and pants. She carries with her a set of kukris on her belt, each one with a amber on the hilt. Her crest is bronze and curly. Her gold eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. 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. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Jaxi fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety.

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism. Flaws: Antagonistic, Ugly, Fearful. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: This woman stands a little under 3'4" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her hazel eyes peer out from beneath her deerstalker blue hat.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her music with anyone who is interested.

History: Callybon was born in the north. At a young age she loved to build and create. Her parents enrolled her in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that she could practice her druidic talents. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end; and to unite with her brother

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic, Persistence. Bonds: Family, Has a crush. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: He stands about 6'3" and has a large brown mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his blue robe. His right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His gray fur is still thick. His hazel eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Shadow 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 Shadow. Being a Banker kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 90 pp.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Half-Orc, and stands approximately 5'8". She prefers to wear black clothing when she does not wear armor, and her gloved hand is found clutching a pickaxe. She keeps her long chestnut hair kept up in a rat tail. Her gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. Sutha enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. While she appears to be a normal Half-Orc, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Unemployed.

Motivation: She would like to get married and retire; and she's in love

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 330 gp. Chrysoberyl (70 gp).

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a brown coat over a black low-cut shirt, and a Stetson hat upon his head. His brown fur is greasy and uncared for. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Navigator. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Navigator arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 6000 cp.