Description: A stocky darker skinned woman, she wears a red cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings. Her white hair is cut short. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While she appears to be a normal Human, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Insane. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears a white armored body suit, with a simple pastel line shooting up and back down. Her moppish red hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: To end her boredom; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Flaws: Addict, Mundane, Insane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This woman wears tan trousers with brown and grey striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized amber on her left hand. Her brown hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a clover scrunchie. Her fierce hazel eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She pushes her goals aggressively. She is also a coward if confronted.

History: Ahlyssa hails from a village terrorized by brigands. In her 15th year, her parents were killed by a brigands raid, leaving Ahlyssa alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Flaws: Secretive, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 200 gp. White opal (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Humans. Her skin is dark but she possesses many brown ritualistic tattoos. She wears tattered old clothes. Her hair is black and curly. She has hazel eyes and a blue hat with a brown feather.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. 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 to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: In love, Rich. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 700 gp. Alexandrite (600 gp).