Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 6'10" when asserting himself. He sports a flattop fur cut. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady amber eyes.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his father. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears a tattered pair of loose red pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. She keeps her long brown hair kept up in a rat tail. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of dire rats once and for all.

History: Born in the north to a Stableman, Nora learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. She worked as a nervous Stableman and found it very stressful. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

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

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. She wears a colorful flower in her red hair. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. 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: Melissa was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: A middle-aged man, he is wearing a long, brown, dusty cloak, and is pretty ugly. His orange fur is long and unkept. His amber eyes peer out from beneath his top brown hat.

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. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Skirt grew up listening to his father's many stories. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Nature, Guardian, In love. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 1 Banded mail.