Description: Standing 5'1", this man wears light armors faded through time and improper care. His purple hair is braided into rings. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered dancing. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Passionate, Entrepeneur, Artistic. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 800 gp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2400 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (50 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2400 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Elves. Her skin is light but she possesses many blue ritualistic tattoos. She prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. Her moppish auburn hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her green eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing painting.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Her martial abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: Standing 5'5", this man tends to wear a brown poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His chestnut hair and beard is wavy and long. His violet eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Justin is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Carter. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 12 years.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Extrovert, Professionalism, Fighting. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 600 gp. Hematite (14 gp). Banded agate (14 gp). Chrysoberyl (40 gp). Lapis lazuli (14 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Lapis lazuli (14 gp). White opal (1300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: The light-skinned man stands 5'0" and wears a tan shirt with thin brown vertical stripes and red pants. He has dyed his greying silver hair a little too much giving a sharp silver color. His eyes are a pleasant green.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered music. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Job, Nature, Family. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: Just what you see.