Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He likes to wear brown tank tops with black pants. His hair is red and very short. His eyes are likewise amber.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his father. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. Some 9 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Alberich never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Immigrant, In love. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. She has wavy black crest. Her eyes are red and catlike.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Justice, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 1300 gp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (70 gp).

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He tends to wear a grey poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His white hair is braided into rings. His green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Masseuse.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and he is greedy

Ideals: Justice, Optimist. Bonds: Rich, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 150 gp. Black pearl (300 gp). 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: He is a mite stocky and dresses like a well dressed Interpreter does. His white crest is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Shamash wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Monk, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He worked as a nervous Interpreter and found it very stressful. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Impulsive, Disease. Bonds: Job, Attractive. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 6000 sp.

Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He wears a violet vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His yellow leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his violet boots flare out at the collars. He has moderate length red hair. He has a dull look in his hazel eyes.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: Gifted from a young age, Dayereth studied abroad. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 2800 sp. Carnelian (20 gp). Red spinel (110 gp).

Description: He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times, and he perpetually has his longbow ready. He wears his chestnut hair up in a very large beehive style do. His hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Gifted from a young age, Ernest studied abroad. 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 was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she is well dressed, constantly wearing a brown suit, tan shirt, and black tie. Her gray fur, when down, is lengthy. Her eyes are likewise hazel. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Through the years after Shifting was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Shifting's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand her business; and balancing her hectic life and new fisher responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Military, Job. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 290 pp. 1 Minor magic item.