Description: This exceptionally lanky man tends to wear a green poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He has done his best to style his gold crest to look like a famous performer. He has gleaming, smiling red eyes.

Personality: Mugrunden speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: He is content; and nothing but the best is good enough for him

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Secretive, Mundane. Bonds: Nature, Family. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 200 gp. Emerald (1300 gp). Violet garnet (1400 gp). Pink pearl (120 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her pickaxe, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a rose on it. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her black unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: Born to a Beggar, her father struggled to pay the bills. 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. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Herbalist and was forced into it by her family.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Family, Poor. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: This eastern man is typically in his Butcher uniform. His clothes are grease stained in places. He wears a Stetson hat to hide his balding. His blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. 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: When he was but 3 years old his parents immigrated from the east. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Poor, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: A stocky darker skinned woman, she is wearing a tight white one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. Her moppish auburn hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She is baby faced.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. Through the years after Bree was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Bree's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down.

Flaws: Mundane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 400 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1000 gp).