Description: She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. She is portly but not overly obese. She keeps her blonde hair in a pixie cut. She has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: This tall, slender man wears a tight fitting grey shirt and pants. He has no hair. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Mortician born in the past three hundred years. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: Thradal was raised in a hard working conservative environment. 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 set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He has dyed his greying chestnut hair a little too much giving a sharp chestnut color. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. After a long history of fighting, Halander and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Hedonist, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. Her broad hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her eyes are yellow and beady.

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

History: She was raised in a desert tribe. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way east. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father; and to unite with her brother

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Nature, Family. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears a tan coat over a yellow low-cut shirt, and a deerstalker hat upon his head. His white hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. After a long history of fighting, Azaki and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Pacifist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 9000 cp.

Description: This southern man is abnormally tall. He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His chestnut hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Lubash is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born into a rich family. Lubash was born on a far southern island where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Soapmaker. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he is greedy

Ideals: Athletic, Justice. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 200 sp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This malnourished woman wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with red lining and desert motifs. Her hair is brown and curly. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her father.

History: She was born in a small island village. Her first spouse was a Servant, they had one daughter, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor, Nature, Family. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 280 gp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (600 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (40 gp).

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears suspenders and yellow workpants. Her shirt is white, and she wears a heavy yellow leather apron most of the time. Her broad hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She constantly seizes attention wherever she goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. She likes to think of herself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Her father was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Insane. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: Aquamarine (300 gp).

Description: He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His red hair is knotted and matted. He has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. 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 struck the Guard job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Job, In love. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 210 gp.