Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears professional attire. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He has red eyes and a black hat with a brown feather.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: He was born at the edge of vast plains. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He bought a scythe and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Joker, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 3000 sp. Violet garnet (400 gp). Peridot (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears brown leather gloves, a brown jacket, and tight pants. She carries a battered kukri and tarnished lance as well. She wears a small hat to cover her moderate length blonde hair. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Mary will drive conversation. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: Born in the south her family was never financially stable. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Animal Trainer responsibilities is difficult; and expand her business

Ideals: Fighting, Extrovert. Bonds: Job, Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 100000 cp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears long strands of amber and short green dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His crest is scarlet, silky, and of moderate length. His skin is flawless and his red eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Stableman but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: Rhogar was born with his mother's beautiful face. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Pacifist. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Guardian. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 4000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, he wears grey leather gloves, a grey jacket, and tight pants. With bright chestnut hair and a scraggly beard. His violet eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Clerebold is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. His homeland was ravaged by war and he spent much of his life rebuilding it. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son.

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Family, Military. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears a tattered pair of loose tan pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. She has black hair. She has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: Chaedi wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Adept, so she tries to act the part. She does a good job, for the most part... The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Chaedi 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 Chaedi. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture.

Ideals: Disciplined, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 2800 sp. Obsidian (7 gp). Coral (110 gp). Blue quartz (7 gp). 1 Magnifying glass.

Description: An older man who wears many layers of old clothing at all times, he is not a threatening figure. He sports a long golden beard, and similarly colored long hair. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady hazel eyes.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. He is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. Elaim abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job, Criminal record, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 350 gp. Jade (110 gp). Red garnet (110 gp). 3 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: She prefers to wear blue clothing when she does not wear armor. Her brown hair is heavily combed to the left. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. As she has aged she has sought to do reparations for her actions as a youth. She is also making sure that her compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: She comes from a rich western family. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Optimist, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Rich, Slave. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.