Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He prefers to wear red clothing when he does not wear armor. His red hair is unkempt and raggedy. His amber eyes dart from person to person.

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 is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. He worked as a nervous Sage and found it very stressful. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 7 years.

Motivation: Expand his business; and balancing his hectic life and new sage responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Poor, Job, Military. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 110 pp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He is wearing a tight blue one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. His chestnut hair has been sun bleached extensively. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are gray.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Born in the north to a Performer, Rolen learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Performer work with an outfit from a few towns over. Performer work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He has achieved small success as a Performer.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 1000 cp. 1 Small steel mirror.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears skinny pants and wears a yellow and pastel robe with the hood down. His hair is black and curly. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with singing. He constantly tries to fill his life with singing. He uses divination through singing.

History: He was born in the east. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 200 gp. Azurite (14 gp). Black pearl (700 gp). Peridot (40 gp).

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears many layers of old clothing at all times. Her hair is short and golden. Her violet eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: Tippletoe is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the west were limited. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: To clean up the streets.

Ideals: Extrovert, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Mentor, Immigrant. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 11000 sp. Peridot (20 gp). Brown-green garnet (50 gp).

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears a green shirt with thin blue vertical stripes and grey pants. She has dyed her greying blue hair a little too much giving a sharp blue color. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world.

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Nature. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. Her red hair is heavily combed to the left. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Prosperine is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. The war was a terrible time for her, and Prosperine does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Prosperine liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle.

Flaws: Depressed, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Nature. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. Her green crest is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her fierce gold eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Dragonborns in the west were limited. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Hedonist, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Detective

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

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His brass crest is long and unkept. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Mercenary who has hired him part-time. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: He has a crush on the local Masseuse; and he's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave, Has a crush, Mentor. Occupation: Mercenary

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

Possessions: 8000 cp. Blue quartz (10 gp). Rhodochrosite (10 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears a black Stetson hat and black clothes. His hair is cut close to his head. He has brown eyes.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: Skoth was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Skoth has worked very hard to control his curse. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Revenge; and a deep hatred of illithids

Ideals: Joker, Professionalism. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 500 gp.