Description: 5'3" and muscular, this eastern man wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He keeps his long black hair kept up in a rat tail. He has red eyes.

Personality: Astar is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered dancing. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Depressed, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 1800 gp. Fire opal (600 gp). Hematite (10 gp). Alexandrite (1500 gp). Freshwater pearl (10 gp). Silver pearl (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his scimitar with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He keeps his black crest in a flapper bob. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Shamash was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. Because his mother participated in the massacre of their homeland, dire rats burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. He was preparing to flee to the north, but the outbreak of war prevented him and his father from journeying north to reunite his family. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 600 gp. Gold music box (2000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (400 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (90 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1600 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears bulky grey painted plate armor. His chestnut hair is smooth and relatively long. His eyes are green and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: He is a Succubi in disguise. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. John 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 John. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: She is a physically imposing light-skinned woman. She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. With wild red hair. Her blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is envious of other's things. She hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that she so desires. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: She is a Metallic Dragon in disguise. In her youth she was part of a gang. She got caught, but did not rat out her comrades and served her time in prison. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and doesn't want to be a engraver and was forced into it by her family

Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Family, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 7000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.