Description: She is an average looking western female in her early mid-life. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her black hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her violet eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is a Courier first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: She was born in a small plains village. 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 has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Mason again.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 100 gp. Moonstone (30 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp). Carnelian (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This slender woman stands about 5'9". She wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. Her hair is short and silver. She has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: She considers herself the perfect lady. She makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: When she was but 3 years old her parents immigrated from the west. Her father disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her father, she was betrayed dozens of times. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature longsword.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and balancing her hectic life and new crown-heir responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 80 pp. Aquamarine (300 gp).

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. She has shaved her head bald. Her brown eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: Standing 6'3", this man wears brown painted combat armor at almost all times. His black hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His green eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way south. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Adventurer, Religious, Family. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 700 gp.