Description: This northern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He sports tan clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. His chestnut hair is lengthy. His violet eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Server. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. Halimath enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was born in the north. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Server responsibilities is difficult.

Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Server

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 110 gp. Sardonyx (20 gp). Rock crystal (20 gp). Silver pearl (110 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 6'3" when asserting himself. He has purple hair. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: Melech is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Melech lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered south to less war torn lands. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Depressed, PTSD. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 900 gp.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a grey cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings. His red hair is matted, messy, and big. His ears are large.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of dire rats may trigger it at times.

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. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He became a Map Maker soon after.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Map Maker responsibilities is difficult; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 1000 sp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He is well dressed, constantly wearing a tan suit, white shirt, and red tie. His auburn hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. 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 was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He is greedy; and money/treasure

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Mentor, Rich. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 400 gp. Star rose quartz (40 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears dark leathers with embroidery. His wide-brimmed hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His ears are large.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: The child of a Healer, who enjoyed hunting, Alston was taken on many hunting expeditions. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the forest to a summer home near a old dungeon. He would wander through that old dungeon and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the forest due to the painful memories there. Alston took refuge in the old dungeon and found the beat up hand crossbow and armor he uses now. After a long history of fighting, Alston and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 5000 sp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1300 gp).

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears a fancy pastel dress. Her black fur is braided into rings. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: Aura was born the youngest of three triplets. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Elven companion (her 'brother'). When she grew older, she became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. She began work as a mercenary for hire. She would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats; and she wants revenge against dire rats

Flaws: Disease, Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 2000 gp. Golden yellow topaz (1400 gp). Banded agate (7 gp). Coral (160 gp). Freshwater pearl (7 gp). Rock crystal (70 gp). Deep green spinel (160 gp).

Description: She wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. She wears her golden hair down. Her amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Performer work with an outfit from a few towns over. Performer work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Disciplined, Fighting. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 5000 cp. Sard (20 gp). Freshwater pearl (16 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (400 gp).

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He wears bulky white painted plate armor. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. 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 was granted necromantic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 30000 cp. White pearl (140 gp). Coral (140 gp). Alexandrite (800 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This eastern woman is abnormally tall. She wears a green collared shirt and blue skirt. She accessorizes with a yellow scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. She wears a deerstalker hat to hide her balding. Her eyes are likewise silver. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Kallista was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Family, Job. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 1600 gp. Deep blue spinel (1400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.