Description: He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time, and carries shortbows. His hair is short and auburn. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Marshal responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is wearing a tight grey one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His golden hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is a Spice Merchant first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Don lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Logical. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 5000 cp. Citrine (80 gp).

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her violet eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of dire rats once and for all.

History: Eida hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. She always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Dyer.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. She carries with her a set of kukris, each one with a topaz on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her hair is auburn and curly. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: A powerful necromancer made her what she is. She became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Stableman for the past few years.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Criminal record. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 600 gp. Amber (130 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.