Description: He is scrawny and has patchy auburn stubble. He prefers to wear grey pants and tee shirts. He has a hunchback. His auburn hair is singed and shortened. His gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Sage born in the past three hundred years. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and expand his business

Flaws: Ugly, Fearful, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 90 gp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. He wears a tight fitting grey shirt and pants, marred by sweets. He wears a small hat to hide his balding. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He was raised in a desert tribe. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature falchion.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Disciplined, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 600 sp. Tourmaline (150 gp).

Description: He is well dressed, constantly wearing a brown suit, green shirt, and blue tie. His auburn hair is still thick. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

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 is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Humans.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. 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. After a long history of fighting, Roland and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Human compassion.

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Racist, Antagonistic. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty yellow coat over it. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his mother. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To end his boredom.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 500 gp. A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (120 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (900 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This woman typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep red leather and dull black iron scale mail. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized amber on her left hand. Her golden hair is long and unkept. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines green.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with music. She constantly tries to fill her life with music. She also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Slave Trader arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She has recently attracted an admirer that believes she's playing hard to get.

Motivation: She's in love; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Has a crush, Slave. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 50 gp.