Description: This fat northern woman has a bulbous nose and wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. She keeps her long black hair kept up in a rat tail. Her gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Elysande hails from a village terrorized by giants. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by giants, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Enemies, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 1000 sp. White opal (500 gp).

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She tends to wear a black poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. She has done her best to style her brown hair to look like a famous performer. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: This woman loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: The child of a Herbalist, who enjoyed hunting, Galiena was taken on many hunting expeditions. A gifted student she started as a Herbalist, but she got bored and became a Layabout. She's also a talented Herbalist, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military, Nature, Job. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is wearing a tight tan one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His hair is white and very short. His eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his mother. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant, Job, Rich. Occupation: Glassblower

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

Possessions: 30000 cp.

Description: She is a pot bellied northern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She is wearing a tight black one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. Her moppish chestnut hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

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 invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature longsword.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Athletic, Opinionated. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.