Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with wide-brimmed hat. Her crest is cut close to her head. Her gold eyes peer out from beneath her wide-brimmed green hat.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing singing.

History: Nala lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered singing. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand her business; and money/treasure

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Bonds: Family, Job, Rich. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is a husky woman, who is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. Her hair is short and golden. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Andraste 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 will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. She cares deeply for her spouse and does her best to make sure her guests look presentable.

History: Her divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. Some 9 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Andraste never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved.

Ideals: Disciplined, Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, In love. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She is lean but muscular and dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. Her auburn hair is knotted and matted. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: Her martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She struck the Jeweler job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and balancing her hectic life and new jeweler responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Has a crush, Religious. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 140 gp. Red spinel (90 gp).

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears light armors faded through time and improper care. His red hair is lengthy. His eyes are blue and beady.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Gnome in existence. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Mundane. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 25000 cp. Zircon (40 gp). Violet garnet (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He is dressed in a clean green cloak covering his clean studded leather. He wears a feathered hat to cover his moderate length silver hair. His eyes are a pleasant silver.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Mordai was born the youngest of three triplets. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He has dedicated himself to building a better village for his children.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 2000 cp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her blonde hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her eyes are blue and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Locksmith arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. While she appears to be a normal Elf, 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 has never given up on her painting dream.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She keeps her silver hair in a pixie cut. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She uses divination through singing.

History: Her arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her parents were killed by drow in a raid when she was still a young child. The drow captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to drow demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Many drow want her driven away.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Depressed, Ugly. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: White pearl (100 gp). 1 Masterwork Light steel shield.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, she prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. She has moderate length black hair. Her amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Silaqui has worked very hard to control her curse. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and she is greedy

Ideals: Pacifist, Professionalism. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She is dressed in an above average manner. She has a long auburn ponytail with little hanging trinkets. She has a dull look in her brown eyes.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Priest. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and balancing her hectic life and new priest responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Poor. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 5000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.