Description: She is in excellent shape and wears a tan coat over a grey low-cut shirt, and a deerstalker hat upon her head. She wears a colorful flower in her silver hair. Her gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Birel lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Through the years after Birel was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Birel's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Birel and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 1600 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: He wears a yellow coat over a tan low-cut shirt, and a Stetson hat upon his head. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly bows and sickles. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy blonde hair. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: He got into the Mortician business at a young age. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he desires power and/or immortality

Flaws: Lazy. Bonds: Criminal record, Attractive, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: He tends to wear a large violet jacket. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His auburn hair is braided into rings. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of dire rats may trigger it at times.

History: Nim hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. In his 13th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father 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. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This woman stands a little under 5'0" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her silver hair is well kept. Her eyes are likewise amber.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: Gifted from a young age, Thiala studied abroad. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered music. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: A deep hatred of giants; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Justice, Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 80 gp. 1 Magnifying glass.

Description: This man wears a tan feathered hat and tan clothes. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized jet on his right hand. His blonde hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Gnomes became a terror of the countryside. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he is greedy

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 300 sp. Chrysoprase (60 gp).

Description: He prefers to wear pastel clothing when he does not wear armor. He carries with him a set of glaives on his belt, each one with a jet on the hilt. His red fur is singed and shortened. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady green eyes.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his necromantic talents. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Dynamic fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned woman, she wears a grey coat over a violet low-cut shirt, and a deerstalker hat upon her head. She wears a deerstalker hat to hide her balding. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her green eyes.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: Born in the east her family was never financially stable. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 1000 cp. Coral (70 gp).

Description: This dark-skinned male dresses in yellow turtlenecks beneath a tan coat with red slacks. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His hair is long and brown with streaks of golden, and is pulled back with small yellow clips. His beard is golden, braided, and well cared for. His green eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: He was born at the edge of vast plains. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Ruler. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Flaws: Addict, Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Nature, Family. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: She likes to wear blue tank tops with green skirt. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her monstrous two handed axe, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a card on it. Her auburn hair is still thick. Her blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Barber arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Quilla fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: Zircon (80 gp). Rhodochrosite (15 gp).