Description: This northern man is abnormally tall. He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a green coat. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He has styled his white crest well, parting it to the right. His fierce red eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his poetry with anyone who is interested.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and to unite with his brother

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 4000 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (80 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (700 gp). Jeweled gold crown (4000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He dresses in grey turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with blue slacks. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Nordak was raised in a hard working conservative environment. In his 12th year, his parents were killed by a giants raid, leaving Nordak alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and balancing his hectic life and new animal trainer responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: Chrysoberyl (150 gp). Tourmaline (150 gp). Citrine (80 gp). 1 Simple lock.

Description: This man usually wears his green robe and has his longbow always slung over his shoulder. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized jet on his left hand. He wears his green crest up. His red eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. He always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: She wears a green cloak and cross-gartered black stockings, and she perpetually has her pickaxe ready. She has done her best to style her green crest to look like a famous performer. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She disdains her fellow northerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Thava grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Thava. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Bonds: Immigrant, Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 800 sp.