Description: He wears a fancy brown suit, and carries bastard swords. His hair is long and silver with streaks of auburn, and is pulled back with small brown clips. His beard is auburn, braided, and well cared for. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Rurik's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. 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. Rurik fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears a green tunic with grey highlights, and long yellow pants that bunch up around her shoes. She has moderate length red hair. She has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She is an amazing painter.

History: She was born at the edge of vast desert. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. 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: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she is greedy

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Disease, Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: The dark-skinned woman stands 5'3" and is wearing a long, tan, dusty cloak. She keeps her golden hair in a pixie cut. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: Xanaphia was raised in a hard working conservative environment. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Flaws: Shy, Addict, Insane. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Server

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 1800 sp.

Description: He stands about 6'1" and wears suspenders and green workpants. His shirt is violet, and he wears a heavy green leather apron most of the time. His right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His green crest is drawn into a tight pony tail with a cross scrunchie. His skin is flawless and his red eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. After coming to the age of reason, Heskan took it upon himself to study the arcane arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He was granted arcane powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Opinionated, Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 100 gp. Golden pearl (50 gp).

Description: This woman wears a robe, a symbol of her god around her neck, and a scythe on her belt. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized topaz on her right hand. Her tied-back hair is silver. Her amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. 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: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Stylist arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. At a young age her father died while driving off some giants. Her mother being the stubborn sort decided to stay and helped train her in scythe use. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: She is greedy; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Bonds: Rich, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 30 gp. Chalcedony (80 gp).

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty violet coat over it. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her eyes are brown and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Professionalism, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 400 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This man does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized jet on his right hand. He has no hair. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He has all his life been fascinated with dancing.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. He has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he is greedy

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: She prefers to wear black clothing when she does not wear armor. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly pickaxes and rapiers. Her rusty crest is unkempt and raggedy. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. When triggered she is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. In her youth she was part of a gang. She got caught, but did not rat out her comrades and served her time in prison. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: To end her boredom; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Insane, Disease. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Spy

Voice: American accent

Possessions: Golden pearl (150 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with grey colored cloaks and clothing. Her hair is long and red with streaks of black, and is pulled back with small grey clips. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. Emeny abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. When she grew older, she became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. She began work as a mercenary for hire. She would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: Just what you see.