Description: This man dresses in white turtlenecks beneath a pastel coat with white slacks, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He has wavy blonde hair. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is a Stylist first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Gifted from a young age, Stannor studied abroad. His necromantic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Family, Religious. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 4000 gp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (400 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (400 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (2000 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (100 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (150 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (150 gp). Solid gold idol (1200 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (100 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (3000 gp).

Description: She wears black robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a scythe, but if one is not available she will default to her pickaxe. She has dyed her greying blue hair a little too much giving a sharp blue color. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Vapula grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Vapula. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 40 pp. Amethyst (40 gp). 1 Healer’s kit.

Description: This man is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes., and sports empty pouches on his belt. His crest is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: Kaladan was born the youngest of three triplets. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Optimist, Persistence. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 230 pp.

Description: She has the majority of her body covered in plate. She is portly but not overly obese. She is bald on top and has large black tufts of hair around her ears. Her violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She disdains her fellow northerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Born in the north to a Beggar, Faral learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She has achieved small success as a Beggar.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and balancing her hectic life and new beggar responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 300 gp. Rock crystal (70 gp). 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: An older man who wears a simple green robe with yellow stripes complete with hood, he is not a threatening figure. He wears a deerstalker hat to hide his balding. His silver eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Unemployed but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Marbas has worked very hard to control his curse. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Disease, Mundane, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 3000 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (12 gp). Malachite (12 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (12 gp). Citrine (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.