Description: She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty pastel coat over it, and carries kukris. Her red hair is braided into rings. Her fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

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 was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She was granted druidic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Fighting, Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 6000 sp. Solid gold idol (800 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (1000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (800 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp).

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her white hair is lengthy. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her green eyes.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: Emmeline was born with her father's beautiful face. 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: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 800 gp. Silver pearl (90 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her monstrous two handed axe with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She carries with her a set of monstrous two handed axes on her belt, each one with a topaz on the hilt. Her blonde hair is long and unkept. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are blue.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She is a great chef.

History: She was raised in a island tribe. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and to protect her home

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Guardian, Nature. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 200 gp. Pink pearl (130 gp). Sard (70 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He wears his chestnut hair up in a very large beehive style do. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. 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-brother.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. His parents enrolled him in a Paladin school at a young age so that he could practice his necromantic talents. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and to unite with his brother

Ideals: Gifted, Optimist. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Family. Occupation: Painter

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 100 gp. Black star sapphire (1300 gp). Smoky quartz (20 gp). Star rose quartz (20 gp).