Description: She wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. She wears a broad hat to hide her balding. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She works hard and plays hard.

History: Vistra hails from a village terrorized by goblins. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Scribe work with an outfit from a few towns over. Scribe work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She wants revenge against goblins; and expand her business

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: Standing 5'2", this man wears pastel trousers with grey and pastel striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. His cinnamon fur is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His blue eyes peer out from beneath his feathered pastel hat.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Spear was raised in a hard working conservative environment. His divine abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He was granted divine powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Optimist, Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: This man stands a little under 3'0" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty white coat over it. His tied-back hair is black. His eyes are brown and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Spy arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world.

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he tends to wear a grey poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He keeps his long brown hair kept up in a rat tail. His half smiles and hazel eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. At some point he was captured by dire rats and was tortured. After several years of this he finally managed to escape. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He is content.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Enemies. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. She keeps her golden hair in a pixie cut. She has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She uses divination through singing.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Half-Orcs in the west were limited. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and money/treasure

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He dresses in violet turtlenecks beneath a black coat with red slacks. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy blonde hair. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Theren 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 Theren. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of specialists.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Joker, Athletic. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She is a husky woman, who prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. Her fur is short and brown. Her half smiles and copper eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. She also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Bookbinder profession.

History: Fragrant was born the youngest of three triplets. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and money/treasure

Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job, Family, Religious, Criminal record. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This woman wears a brown vest and prefers grey and brown shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized aquamarine on her right hand. Her golden hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. 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. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Selfish. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 50 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This eastern woman wears a tan Stetson hat and tan clothes. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her golden hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a Stetson hat. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is envious of other's things. She hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that she so desires. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. 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 moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 6000 cp.