Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her quarterstaff with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her crest is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Tanner. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She takes great joy in being the best Tanner in town.

History: Jheri was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. Her parents enrolled her in a Bard school at a young age so that she could practice her psionic talents. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 8 years.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 6'10" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears skinny pants and wears a pastel and tan robe with the hood down. His fur is gray and curly. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: Cloud was born into a poor family. Growing up, he dreamt of becoming a Cleric, to bring honor to his family’s name. When he came of age, he applied for a position with his town's local guard, looking to work his way up via merit and eventually become a Cleric in service of a powerful lord somewhere. After coming to the age of reason, Cloud took it upon himself to study the necromantic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Cloud fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends.

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted, Fighting. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 7000 gp. Tourmaline (60 gp). Smoky quartz (20 gp). Sard (20 gp). Black opal (700 gp). Alexandrite (1100 gp). Blue sapphire (700 gp). Star rose quartz (20 gp). Banded agate (5 gp). Sard (20 gp). Rose (20 gp). Deep green spinel (60 gp). Chrysoberyl (60 gp). Aquamarine (1100 gp). Golden pearl (60 gp). Aquamarine (1100 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Onyx (20 gp). Blue star sapphire (700 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is in excellent shape and dresses in white turtlenecks beneath a black coat with pastel slacks. He keeps his chestnut hair in a flapper bob. His green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: Born to a Courier, his father struggled to pay the bills. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He has never given up on his painting dream.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and he wants revenge against dire rats

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Enemies, Poor. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 50 pp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2100 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2100 gp).

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright blue and green, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes brigands are coming to abduct people. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Caramip was raised in a hard working conservative environment. While she appears to be a normal Gnome, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Revenge; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 600 gp. Amethyst (80 gp). Aquamarine (1100 gp). Rose (20 gp). Malachite (15 gp). Sardonyx (20 gp). Star ruby (1300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.