Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His feathered hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep violet.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Gardener arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 200 gp. Alexandrite (400 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (12 gp).

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She wears her golden hair down. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

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, Shamil took it upon herself to study the martial arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and balancing her hectic life and new unemployed responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Job, Religious. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 40000 sp. 1 Antitoxin.

Description: He tends to wear a blue poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. He wears a deerstalker hat to hide his balding. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. 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 routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Selfish, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This slender woman stands about 4'7". She wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. She wears her gray fur down. Her eyes are likewise hazel. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, she's a very lovable idiot. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage son.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Jade was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She became a Apothecary soon after.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and to unite with her sister

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Mentor, Job, Religious. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 360 gp. White pearl (100 gp). Chrysoprase (80 gp). Star rose quartz (80 gp).

Description: This man is very fat, and wears a brown collared shirt and grey pants. He accessorizes with a black scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. He wears a feathered hat to hide his balding. His eyes are a pleasant yellow.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: Three hails from a village terrorized by brigands. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Marshal. He has achieved small success as a Marshal.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and many brigands want him driven away

Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Religious, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 160 pp. Sard (70 gp). Red garnet (160 gp). Sardonyx (70 gp). Alexandrite (1600 gp).

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his kukri with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He is bald on top and has large red tufts of hair around his ears. He has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Fletcher arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He is greedy; and money/treasure

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Lazy. Bonds: Slave, Rich. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 200 gp. White pearl (70 gp). Zircon (20 gp). Tourmaline (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This slender woman stands about 5'2". She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. With wild silver hair. Her blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: She comes from a rich southern family. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Half-Orc conditions. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs; and to reunite with her old friends

Flaws: Shy, Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His purple hair is long and unkept. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady black 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 lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He tends to his Farmer job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: To pay off his debts; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Rich, Debt. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 4000 sp.

Description: This northern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. Her white fur is singed and shortened. Her eyes are a pleasant yellow.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Dagger will drive conversation. She is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with her old comrades. She has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She has dedicated herself to building a better kind of golem.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Fighting, Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 600 gp.