Description: This eastern man is abnormally tall. He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright black and violet, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His bronze crest is thinning but still full. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: Rathkran lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Tanner they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Body Guard, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: She is a mite stocky and is dressed in a clean blue cloak covering her clean studded leather. Her brown hair is heavily combed to the right. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is a Barber first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Vaina was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Her father worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled father and took her father's old job. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Barber for the past few years.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 1000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. She wears her brown hair down. She has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life; and she loathes her own lifestyle

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Logical. Flaws: Depressed, Antagonistic. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 31000 sp. 1 Breastplate. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears a worn and beaten armor. He wears his chestnut hair up. He has amber eyes.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Bhevek was raised in a hard working conservative environment. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 1000 sp. Alexandrite (1400 gp). Blue star sapphire (500 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1400 gp). Rose (50 gp). 1 Banded mail. 1 Masterwork Heavy steel shield. 1 Chain shirt.