Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with green colored cloaks and clothing. He wears his silver crest down. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He has dedicated himself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend.

Ideals: Professionalism, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 170 pp. Alexandrite (500 gp). Sard (80 gp). Zircon (80 gp). Fire opal (1600 gp). Deep green spinel (140 gp). Onyx (80 gp). Banded agate (9 gp).

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears green leather gloves, a green jacket, and tight pants. Her dark red hair is still thick. Her silver eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. She has all her life been fascinated with singing.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. A serious injury left her mother unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm mother. She has never given up on her singing dream.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things; and she made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it

Ideals: Passionate, Artistic. Flaws: Addict, Mundane. Bonds: Debt. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His eyes are white and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He has all his life been fascinated with dancing.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother 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 now owns his own business.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 50000 cp. Black pearl (800 gp). Jasper (30 gp). Obsidian (8 gp). Malachite (8 gp). Fire opal (500 gp). Red-brown spinel (60 gp).

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, she wears a fancy yellow dress. With bright chestnut hair. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Interpreter profession.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the plains to a summer home near a ruined castle. She would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and she was stranded inside. Her family spent the next few days looking for her, and could only assume she was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the plains due to the painful memories there. Agnes took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up quarterstaff and armor she uses now. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Military, Nature. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork Light wooden shield.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a grey shirt with thin black vertical stripes and white pants, and a wedding ring on his right hand. His hair is short and silver. His fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: He is a Slaad in disguise. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and revenge

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting. Bonds: In love, Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 400 gp.