Description: 6'8" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her blue crest is braided into rings. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. A freak accident while working with her Bricklayer father left her crippled. During her travels, Kava and her party rested in a cavern that was (unknown to them) infused with powerful dark magic. Upon awakening, Kava discovered the rest of her party dead, transformed into horrible, mindless undead versions of their former selves. Kava fled the cavern, stopping for breath at a small pool, and only then realizing her own horrible transformation.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and she feels kind of lost in life

Flaws: Depressed, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 300 sp. Eye agate (10 gp).

Description: This light-skinned female wears a robe, a symbol of the sun god around her neck, and a trident on her belt. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. She has moderate length brown hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She refers to her adoptive father for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 south. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and to unite with her brother

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insomniac, Impulsive. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: German accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright brown and green, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. Her hair is brown and very short. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: The child of a Detective, who enjoyed hunting, Cecily was taken on many hunting expeditions. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs

Ideals: Passionate, Justice. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Nature, Religious. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 400 gp. Obsidian (16 gp). Pink pearl (40 gp). 1 Breastplate. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He is dressed in a clean white cloak covering his clean studded leather. He has wavy red hair. This green eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: He got into the Soapmaker business at a young age. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: To be a Mercenary again.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 6000 cp. 1 Superior lock.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing tan cape and mantle trimmed with soft grey waves gently in the breeze. His blonde hair is thinning but still full. His eyes are hazel and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Mortician arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. While he appears to be a normal Gnome, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Healer again; and he is greedy

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 1 Half-Plate.

Description: The light-skinned woman stands 5'8" and wears tattered old clothes. Her blonde hair is singed and shortened. Her brown eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: Volen hails from a village terrorized by orcs. In her youth she was a Fisher, 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 sister on her back after seeing her parents die, and fled the country. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Volen fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and many orcs want her driven away

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, PTSD. Bonds: Has a crush, Enemies. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 340 gp.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His tied-back hair is chestnut. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He has achieved small success as a Dilettante.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep.

Flaws: Insomniac, Selfish, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 6000 cp. Amethyst (110 gp).

Description: He wears a blue costume with the symbols of death on his torso. He is portly but not overly obese. His hair is short and blonde. His skin is flawless and his hazel eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. 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 feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Insane, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 300 sp. Coral (160 gp).

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy brown stubble. She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized blue coat. She has a hunchback. Her brown hair is wavy and long. Her brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Sumnes hails from a village terrorized by drow. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Elves in the south were limited. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to drow demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: She wants revenge against drow; and a deep hatred of drow

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 100 sp.