Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He tends to wear a green poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He has styled his blonde hair well, parting it to the right. His amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Heward will drive conversation. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and retire the richest man in the south

Ideals: Athletic, Extrovert, Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: She is a husky woman, who wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. She wears a feathered hat to hide her balding. Her amber eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. Adelaide enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Hunter arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and to end her boredom

Flaws: Impulsive, Hedonist, Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 90 pp.

Description: She wears just a brown suit, and carries monstrous two handed axes. She has dyed her greying brown hair a little too much giving a sharp brown color. She has a dull look in her blue eyes.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. 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: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. 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 now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and retire the richest woman in the north

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Cynical. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 2000 sp. Tiger eye turquoise (10 gp). Carnelian (30 gp). Coral (90 gp).

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He prefers to wear blue clothing when he does not wear armor. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His hair is auburn and curly. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. He was forced to fight in gladiatorial arenas alongside his partner. They became the best of friends and one day they managed to break out together and then went their separate ways.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Insane, Shy. Bonds: Slave, Military. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 200 gp. Violet garnet (900 gp). Black pearl (900 gp). Rhodochrosite (12 gp).