Description: He wears a simple grey robe with brown stripes complete with hood. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His head has been shaved. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Unemployed profession.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. He always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Job, Poor. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 120 gp. Golden pearl (150 gp).

Description: This late middle aged woman does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it and is in decent physical shape. She wears her chestnut hair up. Her gold eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. A gifted student she started as a Detective, but she got bored and became a Merchant. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister; and to reunite with her absent mother

Ideals: Disciplined, Joker. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears brown robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a hammer, but if one is not available he will default to his halberd. His fur is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His yellow eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. He always admired divine-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with white lining and desert motifs. He is an epitome of beauty. He sports a long red beard, and similarly colored long hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Wiggan was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 15 years.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Job, Mentor. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: He has a missing left leg. He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. He has a very tight haircut. His half smiles and blue eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Carter for hire.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and to be a sailor again

Bonds: Attractive, Family, Rich, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: Just what you see.