Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She sports blue clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. She wears her black hair up. Her skin is flawless and her brown eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. A true patriot, Althaea would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Althaea grew up listening to her father's many stories. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 700 sp. Onyx (30 gp).

Description: This woman is renowned for her bright green dresses and hats. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized ruby on her left hand. Her wide-brimmed hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She works hard and plays hard.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Rieta has worked very hard to control her curse. She now mingles about in high society.

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

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, Hedonist, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 1700 sp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her hair, while still mostly white, has prominent grey streaks. Her eyes are white and beady.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Bryseis will drive conversation. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic, Extrovert, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 380 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She likes to wear grey tank tops with black skirt, and she perpetually has her greatsword ready. She keeps her long white hair kept up in a rat tail. Her eyes are a pleasant amber.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Werydd isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Dwarven unity. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: The child of southern immigrants she idolized her mother. Werydd 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. Werydd 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 would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: 5'3" and muscular, this northern man does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His hair is black, silky, and of moderate length. His gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy, Forgetful, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 60 pp. Iolite (20 gp). Moonstone (20 gp). Malachite (13 gp).

Description: This late middle aged woman wears professional attire and is in decent physical shape. Her hair, while still mostly brown, has prominent grey streaks. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. She always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Eridred fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 1600 sp. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. He has done his best to style his blonde hair to look like a famous performer. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. A freak accident while working with his Junk Dealer father left him crippled. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Military. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with broad hat. Her golden hair has been sun bleached extensively. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Marshal profession.

History: Her druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father 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 now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: Carnelian (80 gp).

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears a fancy red suit. With a patchy chestnut beard and wild chestnut hair. He has a dull look in his amber eyes.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. 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: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Apothecary. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and he is content

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 110 gp. 1 Half-Plate.