Description: He is in excellent shape and dresses in grey turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with blue slacks. His blonde hair, when down, is lengthy. His fierce blue eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Born to a Ploughman, his father struggled to pay the bills. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 13 years.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Athletic, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep blue leather and dull brown iron scale mail. She has done her best to style her white hair to look like a famous performer. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Claira was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Her family was turned out during the war. She and her family wandered west to less war torn lands. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and she desires power and/or immortality

Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Mentor, Family. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears a simple pastel robe with tan stripes complete with hood. He wears a colorful flower in his beige fur. His hazel eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature sword.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Her left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She likes to wear yellow tank tops with white skirt. With wild silver hair. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. When she grew older, she became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. She began work as a mercenary for hire. She would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and to be a ruler again

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 360 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This western woman wears white painted combat armor at almost all times. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her moppish black hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: When she was but 7 years old her parents immigrated from the west. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Fletcher hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and to reunite with her old friends

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 320 gp.