Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a violet costume with the symbols of the sun god on his torso, and is pretty ugly. He wears a feathered hat to cover his moderate length silver hair. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. 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: Born in the west to a Laborer, Paelias learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He became a Laborer soon after.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, Job, Religious. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 60 pp.

Description: This malnourished man tends to wear a large violet jacket. His red hair is still thick. His violet eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. Cory is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Persistence, Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 260 pp. Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Pink pearl (140 gp). Blue sapphire (1000 gp). Blue star sapphire (1000 gp). Aquamarine (500 gp). Eye agate (16 gp). Black opal (1000 gp). Red garnet (140 gp). Black star sapphire (1000 gp). Black opal (1000 gp).

Description: The light-skinned woman stands 5'9" and wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. Her blonde hair is lengthy. Her eyes are violet.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Bowyer. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Egelina was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Religious. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 2100 sp.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears a black vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His grey leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his black boots flare out at the collars. His brown hair is long and unkept. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. Thamuz was orphaned to a temple shortly after his birth. He was raised by the temple staff to care always for others above himself and to hold his god always in his heart. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 7000 sp. Old masterpiece painting (1900 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp).

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears a grey vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His black leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his grey boots flare out at the collars. He sports a long golden beard, and similarly colored long hair. His hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Gilbert hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his writing career. He uses divination through singing.

History: He is a Succubi in disguise. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Dwarven artifacts is his passion.

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 130 gp. 2 Holy water.

Description: This late middle aged man wears a brown armored body suit, with a simple black line shooting up and back down and is in decent physical shape. His golden hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady hazel eyes.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He takes great joy in being the best Barrister in town.

History: He was born into a rich family. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He's also a talented Doctor, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: Citrine (60 gp). Emerald (1000 gp). Alexandrite (1500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears bulky black painted plate armor. She carries with her a set of maces on her belt, each one with a amber on the hilt. She has brown hair. Her white eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with painting. She constantly tries to fill her life with painting. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Born to a Bounty Hunter, her mother struggled to pay the bills. She worked as a nervous Bather and found it very stressful. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Bather for hire.

Motivation: Expand her business; and balancing her hectic life and new bather responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He has a large grey mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his black robe. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. He has moderate length auburn hair. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this southern guy figured out how to best use his charms to convince people to do what he wants. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. He moved out east to avoid the crime he committed. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: To protect his home; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Criminal record, Guardian. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft red waves gently in the breeze. His hair is chestnut and curly. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He was granted psionic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 4000 gp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1900 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (50 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (180 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (300 gp). A small bag of saffron. (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.