Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears a worn and beaten armor. His hair, while still mostly dark red, has prominent grey streaks. His black eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and money/treasure

Ideals: Athletic, Professionalism. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 110 gp. Red-brown spinel (80 gp). 1 Backpack.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a black coat over a tan low-cut shirt, and a wide-brimmed hat upon his head. He wears his bronze crest up. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are gold.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter.

Ideals: Opinionated, Athletic. Bonds: Immigrant, Family, Rich. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). 1 Breastplate.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. Her fur is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her eyes are yellow and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Stableman. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She got into the Stableman business at a young age. The family's rival house kidnapped her sister with the intent that her sister marry their son to gain control of contested properties. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: Expand her business; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor, Job, Family. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 1 Banded mail.

Description: Standing 3'2", this woman is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Crown-heir. She has shaved her head bald. Her amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Crown-heir arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Crown-heir. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 41000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.