Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His feathered hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep violet.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Gardener arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 200 gp. Alexandrite (400 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (12 gp).

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She wears her golden hair down. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. After coming to the age of reason, Shamil took it upon herself to study the martial arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and balancing her hectic life and new unemployed responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Job, Religious. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 40000 sp. 1 Antitoxin.

Description: He tends to wear a blue poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. He wears a deerstalker hat to hide his balding. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Selfish, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This slender woman stands about 4'7". She wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. She wears her gray fur down. Her eyes are likewise hazel. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, she's a very lovable idiot. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage son.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Jade was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She became a Apothecary soon after.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and to unite with her sister

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Mentor, Job, Religious. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 360 gp. White pearl (100 gp). Chrysoprase (80 gp). Star rose quartz (80 gp).

Description: This man is very fat, and wears a brown collared shirt and grey pants. He accessorizes with a black scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. He wears a feathered hat to hide his balding. His eyes are a pleasant yellow.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: Three hails from a village terrorized by brigands. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Marshal. He has achieved small success as a Marshal.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and many brigands want him driven away

Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Religious, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 160 pp. Sard (70 gp). Red garnet (160 gp). Sardonyx (70 gp). Alexandrite (1600 gp).