Description: 5'4" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She is dressed in earthy colors with a tan and black handkerchief worn on her right side. Her blonde hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. She has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: She was born into a rich family. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Herbalist.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 6000 sp.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. She wears her white hair down. Her brown eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Rosalind hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. Rosalind liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Revenge; and retire the richest woman in the east

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 5000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This eastern man is abnormally tall. He tends to wear a large red jacket. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His auburn hair is braided into rings. His blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He is obsessed with his god.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious, Rich, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears a robe, a symbol of the sun god around his neck, and a sai on his belt. He is an epitome of beauty. He has done his best to style his chestnut hair to look like a famous performer. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: He is a Slaad in disguise. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Pacifist. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 200 gp. Carnelian (70 gp). Eye agate (4 gp).