Description: This fat eastern woman has a bulbous nose and wears a brown deerstalker hat and brown clothes. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. She has a very tight haircut. She has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She works hard and plays hard.

History: The child of a Blacksmith, who enjoyed hunting, Nora was taken on many hunting expeditions. She found a children's book about a Dwarf Sorcerer who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist, Fearful. Bonds: Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears a brown costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on his torso. His black fur is lengthy. His amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. 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: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Guard arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever he goes.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Rich, Religious. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 300 sp. Azurite (7 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: She likes to wear ponchos typically of a light tan in addition to tight pants. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. She has slicked back silver hair. Her hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Armorer. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of giants may trigger it at times.

History: Nissa was raised in a hard working conservative environment. In her youth she was a Performer, and wanted to be a champion fighter when she grew up. She was working during a period of war, and as one of the natives she lived in fear of joining the others in being slaughtered. She saw the brutality and swore off her fighting aspirations, taking her younger brother on her back after seeing her parents die, and fled the country. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and a deep hatred of giants

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Job, Enemies, Debt. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 2000 sp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears blue painted combat armor at almost all times. His brown hair is smooth and relatively long. His eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Weaver work with an outfit from a few towns over. Weaver work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He tends to his Weaver job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Cynical, Secretive. Bonds: Military, Job. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 50 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: She sports violet clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. Her hair is long and auburn with streaks of chestnut, and is pulled back with small violet clips. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. The war was a terrible time for her, and Sybil does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: Sybil lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She worked as a nervous Doctor and found it very stressful. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Military, Family, Job. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Masterwork Artisan’s tools. 1 Masterwork Thieves’ tools. 1 Masterwork Musical instrument.

Description: An older woman who wears grey painted combat armor at almost all times, she is not a threatening figure. She wears a colorful flower in her golden hair. She is baby faced.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She disdains her fellow easterners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Isabella was born on a far eastern forest where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Bather. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Many orcs want her driven away.

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 60 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp).

Description: He is a pot bellied eastern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His chestnut hair is lengthy. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Insane, Forgetful. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 10000 sp.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy chestnut stubble. She wears just a grey suit. She has a hunchback. She has moderate length chestnut hair. Her eyes are brown.

Personality: Katherine wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Sorcerer, so she tries to act the part. She does a good job, for the most part... She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Seamstress business.

History: When she was but 3 years old her parents immigrated from the north. Her parents enrolled her in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that she could practice her necromantic talents. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: She wants revenge against dire rats; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Disciplined, Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He wears his black hair down. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Crown-heir. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 4 years.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and expand his business

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Family, Rich, Job, In love. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.