Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a brown coat. Her blonde hair is still thick. Her eyes are likewise hazel. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Balifra grew up listening to her mother's many stories. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Slave, Adventurer. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 400 gp. Old masterpiece painting (500 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (900 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged man is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest, and a wedding ring on his right hand. His small hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady silver eyes.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: In love, Military, Nature. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 150 gp. Pink pearl (120 gp).

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Dwarves. Her skin is light but she possesses many red ritualistic tattoos. She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. She has a very tight haircut. She has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. She always admired divine-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end; and she wants to get laid

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature, Has a crush. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His blonde hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his blue eyes.

Personality: Tûmhom speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Born to a Spy, his mother struggled to pay the bills. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Poor. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. Her hair is auburn and curly. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her green eyes.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Oriff was born with her mother's beautiful face. She worked as a nervous Engraver and found it very stressful. Being a Engraver kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and she is content

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 8000 cp.

Description: A 5'7" southern woman, she is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. She has brown hair. Her eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: She is a hateful person. She taunts others and blames them for her problems. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Emeny was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. 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 set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Flaws: Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Job, Family. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 5000 cp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (160 gp).

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She is wearing a long, red cloak. She has dyed her greying blonde hair a little too much giving a sharp blonde color. Her green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She was raised in a mountains tribe. A gifted student she started as a Animal Trainer, but she got bored and became a Mayor. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and expand her business

Ideals: Persistence, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious, Nature, Job. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 1800 sp.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a chocolate of some kind. He prefers to wear flannel, marred by chocolates. His silver hair is long and unkept. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady violet eyes.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. A freak accident while working with his Miller mother left him crippled. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is greedy

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears green robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a pickaxe, but if one is not available he will default to his shortspear. His silver hair is knotted and matted. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Opinionated, Entrepeneur, Persistence. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 110 gp. Azurite (8 gp).