Description: This exceptionally lanky man is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His brown hair is still thick. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are red.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: Paymon lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Paymon was born on a far northern mountains where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Bounty Hunter. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Job, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 390 gp.

Description: He has a missing right leg. He wears a green tunic with blue highlights, and long white pants that bunch up around his shoes. He has dyed his greying silver crest a little too much giving a sharp silver color. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Zedaar wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Monk, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He worked as a nervous Scribe and found it very stressful. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Family, Job, Slave. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 2500 gp. Rock crystal (70 gp). Lapis lazuli (7 gp). Peridot (70 gp). Rhodochrosite (7 gp). Obsidian (7 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (400 gp).

Description: She is a physically imposing dark-skinned woman. She wears a robe, a symbol of her god around her neck, and a longsword on her belt. She has wavy golden hair. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is a Priest first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: She got into the Priest business at a young age. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 160 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This woman wears blue robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a bastard sword, but if one is not available she will default to her halberd. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her golden hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. As she has aged she has sought to do reparations for her actions as a youth. She is also making sure that her compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. 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. Being a Mason kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Bonds: Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 1400 gp.