Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears tattered old clothes. His hair, while still mostly white, has prominent grey streaks. His eyes are green.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Hupe was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the north were limited. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (300 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears dull blue sweaters, loose white pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed club, just in case. With a patchy auburn beard and wild auburn hair. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: Sapply was raised in a hard working conservative environment. 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 is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and balancing his hectic life and new mason responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Mason

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears a fancy green dress, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her hair is purple and curly. She is baby faced.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She has all her life been fascinated with writing.

History: The child of a Sailor, who enjoyed hunting, Ea was taken on many hunting expeditions. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well.

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Nature, Family. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 17000 gp. Jeweled gold crown (8000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (100 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (50 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2900 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (6000 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2900 gp). Gold music box (2000 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (50 gp).

Description: This dark-skinned male wears a tan vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His black leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his tan boots flare out at the collars. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. He sports a flattop hair cut. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Joker, Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Cynical. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: Rock crystal (40 gp). Peridot (40 gp). Deep blue spinel (300 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. She carries with her a set of hammers on her belt, each one with a topaz on the hilt. She has moderate length brown hair. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She is a bit of a macho woman and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Emeny fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 60 pp. Pink pearl (40 gp). Zircon (70 gp). Bloodstone (70 gp). Sard (70 gp). Rich purple corundum (800 gp). Violet garnet (1100 gp). Star rose quartz (70 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp).

Description: He is a pot bellied northern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a green vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His brown leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his green boots flare out at the collars. He wears a Stetson hat to cover his moderate length white hair. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Selfish, Disease. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 1100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This dark-skinned female wears skinny pants and wears a grey and violet robe with the hood down. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. She has shaved her head bald. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are green.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: Isabella was born with her father's beautiful face. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way north. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 60 gp. Zircon (50 gp).

Description: With grey face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His red hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Tiefling companion (his 'brother'). He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature shield.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Rich, Religious. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 5000 gp. Moonstone (60 gp). Iolite (60 gp). Moss agate (12 gp). Hematite (12 gp). Alexandrite (900 gp). Aquamarine (900 gp). Lapis lazuli (12 gp). Hematite (12 gp). Eye agate (12 gp). Amber (120 gp). Amethyst (120 gp). Banded agate (12 gp). Eye agate (12 gp). Banded agate (12 gp). Malachite (12 gp). Citrine (60 gp). Freshwater pearl (12 gp). Silver pearl (120 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is lean but muscular and very much looks the part of a Bather. Her moppish chestnut hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Ilga will drive conversation. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Ilga was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. 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: She is unsatisfied with her job; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Slave, Mentor. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 17000 cp.