Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. She has done her best to style her chestnut hair to look like a famous performer. Her eyes are likewise gray. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Riswynn is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: Riswynn was born with her father's beautiful face. 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 routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Logical. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 130 gp. Smoky quartz (40 gp).

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she typically wears brown cloth garments or leather armor. Her chestnut hair is knotted and matted. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. While she appears to be a normal Human, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Military, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: Red spinel (50 gp).

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His brown hair is knotted and matted. He has amber eyes.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. 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: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the south. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur, Athletic. Bonds: Slave, Immigrant. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 1000 cp. 3 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: She wears a tight fitting white shirt and pants. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her crossbow, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a card on it. She wears a deerstalker hat to hide her balding. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She disdains her fellow southerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Born in the south to a Ruler, Vani learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. Through the years after Vani was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Vani's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Ruler for the past few years.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He very much looks the part of a Hunter. His wide-brimmed hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He hates giants. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: Hugh hails from a village terrorized by giants. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by giants. Hugh was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the giants.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 200 sp. Deep green spinel (110 gp).

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He is dressed in an above average manner. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His violet eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: He got into the Bookbinder business at a young age. After coming to the age of reason, Altho took it upon himself to study the martial arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He has achieved small success as a Bookbinder.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and expand his business

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 260 gp.

Description: He prefers to wear green clothing when he does not wear armor. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his axe, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a cross on it. His crest is bronze and very short. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes giants are coming to abduct people. He is obsessed with his god.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. In his 15th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Direcris fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Expand his business; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Enemies, Religious, Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 60 gp. Red garnet (50 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears a white collared shirt and tan pants. He accessorizes with a pastel scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His silver hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: Hamil was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. Hamil was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Hamil decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This man stands a little under 6'1" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears a brown vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His black leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his brown boots flare out at the collars. He has styled his beige fur well, parting it to the right. He wears large thick round spectacles.

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 disdains his fellow southerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: The child of a Butcher, who enjoyed hunting, Ethereal was taken on many hunting expeditions. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and to be a butcher again

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature, Job. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 800 sp. 1 Climber’s kit.