Description: This exceptionally lanky man prefers to wear black clothing when he does not wear armor. He has done his best to style his auburn hair to look like a famous performer. His half smiles and brown eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. 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. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 10 pp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A 6'5" northern man, he is typically in his Shipwright uniform. He has no crest. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Shedinn fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 250 gp.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His long silver hair reaches down to his waist. His hazel eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of giants may trigger it at times.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. In his 14th year, his parents were killed by a giants raid, leaving Theren alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by giants. Theren was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the giants.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and a deep hatred of giants

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 8000 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Old masterpiece painting (500 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. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. He wears his chestnut hair down. His green eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He is a great chef.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved.

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: This slender woman stands about 4'10". She wears a black top hat and black clothes. She has done her best to style her black hair to look like a famous performer. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Engong has worked very hard to control her curse. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son; and to reunite with her absent mother

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: This eastern woman sports green clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her chestnut hair is lengthy. Her red eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. She works hard and plays hard.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. After coming to the age of reason, Verin took it upon herself to study the psionic arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His crest is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His eyes are gold and catlike.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. The war was a terrible time for him, and Quarethon does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Quarethon was born with his father's beautiful face. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Military, Attractive. Occupation: Masseuse

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

Possessions: 310 gp. 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. She is wearing a long, violet cloak. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her chestnut hair is knotted and matted. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. Her mother was a soldier and died while she was still young. Sarah was left her mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. 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 is greedy; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Slave, Job, Military, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 600 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (16 gp). Banded agate (16 gp). Golden pearl (120 gp). Hematite (16 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He stands about 6'3" and wears a green feathered hat and green clothes. His left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. He has wavy dark red hair. His red eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He came across an abandoned tomb where he found a relic that called out to him. After picking it up he was cursed by a spirit.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 1400 gp. Golden circlet with four aquamarines (5000 gp).