Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He is portly but not overly obese. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy auburn hair. This green eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: Born in the north to a Mason, Arnold learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Mason for the past few years.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She stands about 5'9" and is well dressed, constantly wearing a green suit, grey shirt, and white tie. Her left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. She wears a colorful flower in her red hair. Her eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her dancing with anyone who is interested.

History: Born in the north to a Unemployed, Alice learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Unemployed. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Unemployed.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Job. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 200 gp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (30 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (30 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Standing 5'11", this woman is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. Her brown hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes brigands are coming to abduct people. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Being born in the south, 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 south 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 west. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to brigands demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Soapmaker and was forced into it by her family.

Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned woman, she wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with blue lining and desert motifs. Her black hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a Stetson hat. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are violet.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Gifted from a young age, Aline studied abroad. Before the accident, she was one of the most outspoken anti-Human activists. She was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Human doctor. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and balancing her hectic life and new map maker responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Racist, Greedy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 2000 sp.