Description: She is a mite stocky and is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She keeps her long chestnut hair kept up in a rat tail. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Her childhood dream was to be a Spice Merchant, but she was a colossal failure. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To end her boredom; and to be a spice merchant again

Ideals: Opinionated, Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 360 gp. Peridot (30 gp). Rose (30 gp). Chrysoberyl (50 gp).

Description: This woman is dressed in an above average manner, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her brown hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her silver eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. On top of that she is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to her employer will always come first she doesn't like to hit women.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature hammer.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and she has a crush on the local masseuse

Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Has a crush, Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His hair is short and golden. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are hazel.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Elves.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Flaws: Emotional, Racist, Insane, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Slave. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is an average looking western female in her early mid-life. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She has dyed her greying blonde hair a little too much giving a sharp blonde color. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. 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: A child with a great deal of dancing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Her father worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled father and took her father's old job. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Optimist, Artistic. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 130 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. His gold crest is matted, messy, and big. He is baby faced.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Detective. Greethen is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the south. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Gnomish people; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Job, Family, Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 250 gp.

Description: 2'9" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She tends to wear a red poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. She wears a colorful flower in her silver hair. Her blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 8. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. When Pennie reached her early adolescence her Halfling mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Addict, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Crown-heir

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

Possessions: 210 gp.

Description: A 4'3" western woman, she is wearing a long, grey, dusty cloak. She wears her chestnut hair up. Her violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. Like her mother and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Armorer. She has worked as a Armorer like her mother before her.

Motivation: She wants revenge against dire rats; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Sensitive, Lazy. Bonds: Military, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 290 gp.

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears yellow painted combat armor at almost all times. Her black hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: Lia lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Like her mother and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Navigator. She tends to her Navigator job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Insomniac, Shy. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears tattered old clothes. She wears a small hat to hide her balding. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. A true patriot, Kasdeya would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: Kasdeya was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Her mother was a soldier and died while she was still young. Kasdeya was left her mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and to be a roofer again

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Military. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 400 sp.