Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He is typically in his Shoemaker uniform. He wears a Stetson hat to hide his balding. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Alston's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Shoemaker arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He worked as a nervous Shoemaker and found it very stressful. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Impeccable, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 150 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears a pastel collared shirt and red pants. He accessorizes with a tan scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His lavender fur, when down, is lengthy. This amber eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Dragonborn culture. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Drifting was born the youngest of three triplets. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. After a long history of fighting, Drifting and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Banker and was forced into it by his family.

Flaws: Racist, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Rich. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 350 gp. Malachite (8 gp). Jade (50 gp). Hematite (8 gp).

Description: She is in excellent shape and prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. Her chestnut hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes illithids are coming to abduct people. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: Pennie was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father 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 owns her own business.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it.

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her fur is cut close to her head. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. 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: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Revenge; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and she desires to right it

Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 20 gp.