Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a blue coat. He has a very tight haircut. His fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He seeks to pay back kindness whenever he gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip he always seeks to do solids for his friends.

History: Gifted from a young age, Zook studied abroad. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and balancing his hectic life and new hunter responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Slave. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears a pastel tunic with white highlights, and long brown pants that bunch up around his shoes. His orange fur is unkempt and raggedy. He is baby faced.

Personality: This man loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. Kite is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Born in the east to a Locksmith, Kite learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Family, Job, Nature. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 500 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (10 gp).

Description: This slender woman stands about 4'2". She has a large brown mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her black robe. Her red hair is lengthy. Her hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: She made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and to be a bather again

Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Adventurer, Military, Job, Debt. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 150 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A 5'9" northern man, he is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Gifted from a young age, Miles studied abroad. He found a children's book about a Human Sorcerer who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Philantrophist, Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: She wears a pastel shirt with thin white vertical stripes and tan pants. She carries a battered monstrous two handed axe and tarnished longbow as well. She keeps her white fur in a flapper bob. Her copper eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, River has worked very hard to control her curse. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 1100 sp. Deep blue spinel (600 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears suspenders and yellow workpants. His shirt is brown, and he wears a heavy yellow leather apron most of the time. His brown hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His ears are large.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and money/treasure

Flaws: Ugly, Terse, Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 90 gp. 2 Smokesticks.

Description: She wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. Her black hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gray.

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 does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. After coming to the age of reason, Quelenna took it upon herself to study the divine arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She was granted divine powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she is greedy

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His red hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. He has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. The war was a terrible time for him, and Pushkrimp does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He has a large violet mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his white robe. He is an epitome of beauty. His blonde hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a card scrunchie. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. 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: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his mother. After coming to the age of reason, Ivellios took it upon himself to study the psionic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 18000 cp.