Description: She is a husky woman, who is dressed in earthy colors with a tan and red handkerchief worn on her left side. Her hair is chestnut and very short. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is envious of other's things. She hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that she so desires. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Mara was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and to end her boredom

Flaws: Greedy, Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy blonde hair. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines brown.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Ugly, Greedy, Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Slave, Job. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: This western man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears baggy blue pantaloons and a brown scarf. His chestnut hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He has all his life been fascinated with painting.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Stableman. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This southern man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His clothes are grease stained in places. His auburn hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines brown.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 40 pp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (60 gp).

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She has the majority of her body covered in plate. Her hair is chestnut and curly. Her eyes are blue.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Anne abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Bonds: Slave, Adventurer. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 90 gp. Red spinel (140 gp).