Description: This fat western man has a bulbous nose and wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He has dyed his greying red hair a little too much giving a sharp red color. His eyes are a pleasant hazel.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Cory was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and expand his business

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Military, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 200 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is wearing a long, white cloak. She has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her white hair is heavily combed to the left. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Neega was born with her mother's beautiful face. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Half-Orcs became a terror of the countryside. She's also a talented Slave Trader, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: He is in excellent shape and prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. His black hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a clover scrunchie. His green eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Tailor born in the past three hundred years. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. His childhood dream was to be a Barkeep, but he was a colossal failure. He became a Tailor soon after.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Job, Nature. Occupation: Tailor

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

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Backpack. 1 Climber’s kit. 1 Bullseye lantern. 1 Good lock.

Description: He wears a tan shirt, with a red mid length shorts with red tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them, and he perpetually has his hand crossbow ready. He has shaved his head bald. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his writing with anyone who is interested.

History: A powerful slaver made him what he is. He has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Eberdeb fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Mayor and was forced into it by his family; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Bonds: Job, Family, Mentor. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Rock crystal (60 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). Amethyst (100 gp).

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy brown fur. She wears bulky pastel painted plate armor. She has a hunchback. She has dyed her greying brown fur a little too much giving a sharp brown color. Her eyes are green and catlike.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. She cares deeply for her spouse and does her best to make sure her guests look presentable.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. She has since married many spouses, only to have them die. She claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: To protect her home.

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Guardian, In love. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 1700 sp. Lapis lazuli (9 gp).

Description: She usually wears her tan robe and has her kukri always slung over her shoulder, and carries kukris. She wears her white hair down. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 23000 sp. 1 Masterwork Light wooden shield. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Breastplate.

Description: This man stands a little under 5'9" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. Sporting a chestnut mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. 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 hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears long strands of emerald and short tan dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His top hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His eyes are likewise hazel. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He is an amazing painter.

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. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Passionate, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Half-Orc, and stands approximately 6'4". He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs, and his gloved hand is found clutching a hand crossbow. His golden hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a small hat. He has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 6000 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (12 gp). Jasper (80 gp). Star rose quartz (80 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp). Jasper (80 gp). Chrysoprase (80 gp). Blue sapphire (1000 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp). Rhodochrosite (12 gp). Peridot (80 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp). Red garnet (50 gp). Iolite (80 gp). Obsidian (12 gp). Citrine (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item.