Description: He wears skinny pants and wears a black and blue robe with the hood down. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His golden hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: He got into the Dyer business at a young age. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and to be a soapmaker again

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Job. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 5000 cp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. Her hair is short and brown. Her gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She hates giants. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Matilda was raised in a hard working conservative environment. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Enemies, Job, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: He typically wears brown cloth garments or leather armor, and he perpetually has his ceremonial dagger ready. He has dyed his greying chestnut hair a little too much giving a sharp chestnut color. His amber eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: Thorin hails from a village terrorized by brigands. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture.

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Bonds: Criminal record, Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 1 Banded mail.

Description: He is a mite stocky and prefers to wear brown clothing when he does not wear armor. His golden hair is long and unkept. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is mildly Human supremacist, though he does not identify as such. He is an amazing painter.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his father. Ostracized due to the divine powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Humans became a terror of the countryside. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and to be a mortician again

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Racist, Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 120 gp.