Description: This fat northern woman has a bulbous nose and wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her long brown hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Tanner business.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and she is greedy

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 3000 sp.

Description: 6'5" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He has done his best to style his white hair to look like a famous performer. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Anselm was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. One day when Anselm was young, his father was sewing while trying to overcome the flu, when suddenly his father dropped to the ground dead. His father had died from a severe disease that was unknown to the village doctor. Anselm was heart-stricken from the event, and his mother started working long hours to provde for them. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Mentor. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 300 gp. Violet garnet (200 gp). Amethyst (70 gp). Eye agate (15 gp). Hematite (15 gp).

Description: This man is very fat, and is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His brown hair and beard is wavy and long. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Healer

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized white coat. Her silver hair is long and unkept. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

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 obsessed with her god.

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 800 gp. Zircon (60 gp). Emerald (1000 gp). Brown-green garnet (50 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.