Description: She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a yellow coat. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. She has done her best to style her red hair to look like a famous performer. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and to be a assassin again

Flaws: Antagonistic, Lazy. Bonds: Military, Job, Family. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 30 pp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp).

Description: This dark-skinned male prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His hair is cut close to his head. His skin is flawless and his gray eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. 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: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To unite with his brother.

Ideals: Joker, Fighting. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 400 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (600 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: She has a large brown mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her blue robe. Her long blonde hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her half smiles and hazel eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 1000 cp. Freshwater pearl (14 gp).

Description: He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light black in addition to tight pants. He has done his best to style his black hair to look like a famous performer. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He can't help but pocket interesting objects he comes across

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the east. Through the years after Barakas was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Barakas's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: To be a Performer again; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 110 pp.

Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his falchion, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a clover on it. He sports a flattop fur cut. His fierce copper eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to goblins demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and revenge

Ideals: Gifted, Athletic. Flaws: Depressed, Impulsive. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: He is in excellent shape and wears just a brown suit. His black fur is knotted and matted. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He hates brigands. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: Left-Handed hails from a village terrorized by brigands. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Left-Handed 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 Left-Handed. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to brigands demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He wants revenge against brigands.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 20 gp. Brown-green garnet (120 gp).

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His scarlet crest is drawn into a tight pony tail with a clover scrunchie. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Insane, Shy. Bonds: Military, Religious. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He wears black painted combat armor at almost all times. His red hair is matted, messy, and big. His black eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Architect hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Poor. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 600 sp. Sard (50 gp).

Description: This western man is abnormally tall. He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He wears his brown hair up in a very large beehive style do. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. 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. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Seeks redemption.

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 90 gp.