Description: A 5'4" western woman, she wears a blue tunic with brown highlights, and long green pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her white hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

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. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 north. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: Chrysoberyl (150 gp). Black opal (1200 gp).

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a blue coat over a tan low-cut shirt, and a top hat upon his head. He has done his best to style his brown hair to look like a famous performer. His brown eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is obsessed with his god.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Farmer.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Religious, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Farmer

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

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She wears a simple green robe with blue stripes complete with hood, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 5'6" when asserting herself. Her head has been shaved. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is mildly Human supremacist, though she does not identify as such. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. After months of barely getting by, Anne managed to ambush a major caravan with a load of valuables. Instantly wealthy, she made her way to the capital under a new identity.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature, Rich. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 30000 cp.

Description: With grey face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty yellow coat over it. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Herleva 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 is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to end her boredom

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Military, Nature. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 5000 sp. Chrysoprase (20 gp).