Description: He wears black leather gloves, a black jacket, and tight pants, and carries greatswords. His red crest has been sun bleached extensively. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He uses divination through singing.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Valorean abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He's also a talented Crown-heir, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and money/treasure

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 50 pp.

Description: She prefers to wear pastel clothing when she does not wear armor. Her beige fur is lengthy. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She uses divination through singing.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Engraver arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. She was granted necromantic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Family. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She stands about 6'8" and wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her falchion with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. She has dyed her greying silver crest a little too much giving a sharp silver color. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are gold.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She pushes her goals aggressively. She is also a coward if confronted.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Her mother was a soldier and died while she was still young. Farideh was left her mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 1200 gp. Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1200 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (2000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1000 gp).

Description: She is a physically imposing dark-skinned woman. She wears baggy blue pantaloons and a grey scarf. She keeps her red hair in a pixie cut. Her hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: She got into the Armorer business at a young age. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Many dire rats want her driven away; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Family, Job, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 10000 sp. An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (40 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.