Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he dresses like a well dressed Bookbinder does. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Bookbinder arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Bookbinder responsibilities is difficult; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by drow, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Opinionated. Bonds: Job, Rich, Slave, Enemies. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he prefers to wear flannel. He wears a deerstalker hat to cover his moderate length white hair. He has gray eyes and a black hat with a grey feather.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. A friendly and beautiful Half-Orc, he is rarely seen without a few beauties around his arms. Though a playboy in all rights, he is no lame duck.

History: Born in the south to a Interpreter, Ur-Lasu learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 12 years.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and expand his business

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 40000 cp. Violet garnet (400 gp). Brown-green garnet (60 gp).

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He wears a yellow cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are hazel.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Born in the north to a Sellsword, Bertram learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He then took over the family business and is one of the better Sellsword for hire.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac.

Bonds: Slave, Religious, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 1100 sp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears a fancy black suit. He has rusty crest. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with painting. He constantly tries to fill his life with painting. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Nykkan was born with his father's beautiful face. 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. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Artistic, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Religious. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 1200 gp. Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp). Blue star sapphire (1600 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp). Jasper (30 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (11 gp). Blue quartz (11 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she tends to wear a violet poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. She is bald on top and has large auburn tufts of hair around her ears. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady brown eyes.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She can't help but pocket interesting objects she comes across

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. Her mother was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: Azurite (4 gp). Iolite (60 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp). Jade (90 gp). Rich purple corundum (900 gp). Star rose quartz (60 gp). Lapis lazuli (4 gp). Rhodochrosite (4 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.