Description: She wears black trousers with white and black striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts, and carries swords. She has dyed her greying bronze crest a little too much giving a sharp bronze color. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Layabout. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Pogranix was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Rich. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He usually wears his pastel robe and has his club always slung over his shoulder. His fur is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He is an amazing painter.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He was granted martial powers by his dying sister.

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

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 5000 cp. Blue quartz (12 gp). Eye agate (12 gp). Violet garnet (200 gp).

Description: She has a missing right leg. She wears a tattered pair of loose green pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. Her hair is silver and curly. Her eyes are likewise gold. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes drow are coming to abduct people. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 1 Banded mail.

Description: 3'2" and muscular, this northern woman wears blue leather gloves, a blue jacket, and tight pants. She has dyed her greying chestnut hair a little too much giving a sharp chestnut color. Her eyes are amber and beady.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. 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: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She has since married many spouses, only to have them die. She claims to not be responsible.

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

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 1 Silk rope.

Description: This fat western man has a bulbous nose and typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull pastel iron scale mail. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His red hair, when down, is lengthy. His violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Optimist, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Shy. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: White pearl (80 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: With grey face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears a grey cloak and cross-gartered tan stockings. Her white hair is thinning but still full. Her eyes are likewise violet. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to brigands demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: A deep hatred of brigands.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: A 5'8" northern man, he wears many layers of old clothing at all times. He has dyed his greying red hair a little too much giving a sharp red color. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines amber.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. 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 Knight. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 60 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp).

Description: This fat western man has a bulbous nose and wears dull violet sweaters, loose red pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed dagger, just in case. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He keeps his silver hair in a pixie cut. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He was raised in a island tribe. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable.

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 2800 sp. Banded agate (16 gp). Jet (80 gp). Deep green spinel (80 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He has moderate length black crest. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

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

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Insane, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 60 gp. Red spinel (110 gp).