Description: This late middle aged woman is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down and is in decent physical shape. She has a very tight haircut. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady gray eyes.

Personality: While she is on the job, she is grim and serious. She understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Lilli was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Lilli decided she wanted neither the life of her mother nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 1400 sp.

Description: This southern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She prefers to wear grey clothing when she does not wear armor. Her white hair is heavily combed to the right. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Selfish. Bonds: Slave, Religious. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. He has a black handlebar mustache and slicked back black hair. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with music. He constantly tries to fill his life with music. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: A powerful wizard made him what he is. As a very small child his family refused to pay dues to a local crime lord, who ordered them killed. His mother, a somewhat powerful mage sought to protect him and cast a teleportation spell that whisked him away. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record, Mentor, Family. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This younger middle-aged man prefers to wear black pants and tee shirts, and a wedding ring on his right hand. His silver hair, when down, is lengthy. His eyes are blue and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

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. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: In love, Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 130 gp. Moss agate (4 gp).

Description: She wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat, and she perpetually has her ceremonial dagger ready. Her hair, while still mostly brown, has prominent grey streaks. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She does not care much for physical appearances, nor does she care much for other people. She does however care about what she wants and getting it. 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 the oldest of a large religious western family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Semyaza liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. 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. Semyaza fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Religious, Nature. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy gray fur. She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. She has a hunchback. Her gray fur is singed and shortened. Her eyes are hazel and beady.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Edge was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions.

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Military. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: She wears professional attire. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. She has wavy white hair. Her white eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her dancing with anyone who is interested.

History: Shax hails from a village terrorized by goblins. She has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: A deep hatred of goblins.

Ideals: Impeccable, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 4000 cp. Coral (80 gp). 1 Disguise kit.

Description: She is lean but muscular and very much looks the part of a Butcher. Her auburn hair is wavy and long. Her eyes are a pleasant hazel.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. She also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. While she appears to be a normal Human, 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 set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Butcher responsibilities is difficult; and she's in love

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Cynical, Insane. Bonds: Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His cinnamon fur is greasy and uncared for. His eyes are a pleasant copper.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Bookbinder arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Miller they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Bookbinder, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 6000 cp. Bloodstone (60 gp). Lapis lazuli (16 gp).