Description: Standing 5'7", this woman is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. She has done her best to style her black hair to look like a famous performer. Her half smiles and blue eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Human culture. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, she was no stranger to responsibility. In her 20th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and her religion dominates her actions

Flaws: Racist, Forgetful, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 800 gp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (50 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (50 gp). Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (50 gp).

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Human, and stands approximately 5'8". She wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents, and her gloved hand is found clutching a greatsword. Her golden hair, when down, is lengthy. Her blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. A freak accident while working with her Priest father left her crippled. She guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end.

Flaws: Disease, Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Immigrant. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 500 gp. Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Black star sapphire (500 gp). Obsidian (15 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He dresses in yellow turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with black slacks. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: Robert speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: Robert lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the south, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the south for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. He has dedicated himself to building a better world.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 40000 cp. Iolite (60 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (16 gp). Iolite (60 gp). Chrysoberyl (130 gp). 1 Masterwork Light steel shield. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: She is an average looking northern female in her early mid-life. She wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her brown hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She thrives on attention. She does whatever is in her power to gain the attention of whomever she deems a fit date. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Humans.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Through the years after Yvonne was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Yvonne's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. 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: She wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and human compassion

Flaws: Racist, Antagonistic, Mundane, Greedy. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1600 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (100 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.