Description: He very much looks the part of a Shoemaker. He is portly but not overly obese. He has moderate length auburn hair. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While he appears to be a normal Halfling, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and balancing his hectic life and new shoemaker responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Addict, Shy, Insane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: This late middle aged woman wears a worn and beaten armor and is in decent physical shape. Her moppish red hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her eyes are likewise gray. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: Jo was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. After a long history of fighting, Jo and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: He wears silk and lounges about seductively. He wears his purple hair down. He has a dull look in his silver eyes.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. Andram is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: A powerful slaver made him what he is. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter; and doesn't want to be a shepherd and was forced into it by his family

Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Enemies, Family, Mentor. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 2500 sp.

Description: This western woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears a black vest and prefers blue and tan shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Her black crest is greasy and uncared for. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. Findex enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. When Findex reached her early adolescence her Dragonborn father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Hedonist. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 5000 cp. Red-brown spinel (140 gp).

Description: This man is dressed in a clean white cloak covering his clean studded leather. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His auburn hair is long and unkept. He has a dull look in his brown eyes.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the east. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. He has since married many spouses, only to have them die. He claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love.

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Secretive. Bonds: Immigrant, In love. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 6000 cp. Freshwater pearl (16 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp). Golden pearl (50 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.