Description: This dark-skinned female prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her auburn hair is greasy and uncared for. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Bellfounder. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: Valida hails from a village terrorized by illithids. 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. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and many illithids want her driven away

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job, Has a crush, Enemies. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: He wears a grey collared shirt and tan pants. He accessorizes with a brown scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'11" when asserting himself. He is bald on top and has large blonde tufts of hair around his ears. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

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

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Through the years after Wymar was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Wymar's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 700 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. His fur is short and black. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Stableman. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Stableman for the past few years.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Stableman responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job, Military, Slave. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 310 gp.

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While he appears to be a normal Dwarf, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Shy, Insane. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 40 gp. Amber (120 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. She keeps her white hair in a flapper bob. Her blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Glassblower. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Traulam grew up listening to her father'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 spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears dull brown sweaters, loose black pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed scimitar, just in case. His long auburn hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes are violet.

Personality: He is a Ruler first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Tiefling companion (his 'brother'). He's also a talented Tailor, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: To be a Tailor again; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Job, Rich, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: German accent

Possessions: Red spinel (50 gp). Deep green spinel (50 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This southern man wears silk and lounges about seductively. His clothes are grease stained in places. His chestnut hair, when down, is lengthy. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the south. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the south were limited. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Flaws: Disease, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 1900 sp.

Description: This late middle aged woman wears light armors faded through time and improper care and is in decent physical shape. Her chestnut hair is thinning but still full. She is baby faced.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation she is generally quite perceptive. She notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Nagrette has worked very hard to control her curse. She struck the Laborer job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: She is content; and to be a banker again

Flaws: Insomniac, Mundane, Disease. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 90 gp. Silver pearl (90 gp). Pink pearl (90 gp).

Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty brown coat over it. His cinnamon fur is matted, messy, and big. He has a dull look in his amber eyes.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Elegant was born on a far southern desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Painter. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and his religion dominates his actions

Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Religious, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 400 sp. Peridot (70 gp).