Description: He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. He carries with him a set of crossbows, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy auburn hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Barkeep arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his father's willingness to do anything to win. After a long history of fighting, Roland and his spouse have recently divorced.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 1000 gp. Jeweled electrum ring (5000 gp). Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (5000 gp). Gold music box (1000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This southern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears a black shirt, with a green mid length shorts with green tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. His white crest is singed and shortened. His fierce red eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: A powerful slaver made him what he is. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He has achieved small success as a Bounty Hunter.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he feels threatened by others

Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Immigrant. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: Pink pearl (100 gp).

Description: With red face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. Her hair is short and purple. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Navigator.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Emotional, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 600 pp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (160 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1700 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1700 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Jeweled anklet (3000 gp).

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Her hair, while still mostly red, has prominent grey streaks. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from her. She is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Halfling in existence. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Jo is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She got into the Bricklayer business at a young age. In her 18th year, her parents were killed by a gnolls raid, leaving Jo alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She wants revenge against gnolls; and a deep hatred of gnolls

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 40000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She has a missing right arm. She tends to wear a large grey jacket. She has a long blonde ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her eyes are a pleasant hazel.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: Gifted from a young age, Anne studied abroad. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Marshal and was forced into it by her family; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears silk and lounges about seductively. His long white crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. He has red 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. He disdains his fellow westerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Born to a Miller, his mother struggled to pay the bills. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father 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 inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 11 years.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Immigrant, Poor. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 800 gp. Finely wrought small gold bracelet (20 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (1000 gp).

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears baggy green pantaloons and a brown scarf. His hair is white and very short. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way east. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and wants to raise his children well

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Job, Religious, Nature, Family. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 5000 gp. Azurite (11 gp). Blue quartz (11 gp). Amethyst (90 gp). Violet garnet (1500 gp). Citrine (20 gp). Black pearl (1500 gp). Zircon (20 gp). Amethyst (90 gp). Star ruby (1300 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Chrysoprase (20 gp). Star ruby (1300 gp). Rhodochrosite (11 gp). Freshwater pearl (11 gp). Deep blue spinel (1500 gp). Chalcedony (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, he wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He has brown eyes.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. A freak accident while working with his Locksmith father left him crippled. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Insane, Disease. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 200 sp. A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (100 gp).

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears a brown shirt, with a grey mid length shorts with grey tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. His auburn hair is still thick. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Layabout but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: Bertram lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Slave Trader they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Layabout, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Nature. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 290 pp. Brown-green garnet (100 gp).