Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His dark red hair, when down, is lengthy. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gold.

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. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Pelaios is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Ideals: Justice, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He wears a blue vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His yellow leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his blue boots flare out at the collars. His white hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Justice, Athletic. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 1000 gp. Moss agate (5 gp). Rhodochrosite (5 gp). Amber (120 gp). Amber (120 gp). Zircon (60 gp). Violet garnet (1200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He has blonde hair. His blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. Rurik was born on a far northern plains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Spice Merchant. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease, Secretive, Shy. Bonds: Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 300 gp. 4 Acid flasks.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she is dressed in an above average manner. She wears a top hat to cover her moderate length red hair. Her blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Creega grew up listening to her mother's many stories. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Adventurer. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 6000 sp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He is dressed in earthy colors with a black and pastel handkerchief worn on his right side. He has styled his golden hair well, parting it to the right. This hazel eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. The war was a terrible time for him, and Baz does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Baz hails from a village terrorized by drow. 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. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 8 years.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Immigrant, Military, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Performer

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 900 gp. Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Jet (150 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. She wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her red crest is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her eyes are a pleasant gold.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Halfling artifacts is her passion; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Slave, Attractive. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy auburn stubble. He wears violet robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a greataxe, but if one is not available he will default to his sickle. He has a hunchback. With bright auburn hair and a scraggly beard. His amber eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: Cory lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 south. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Philantrophist, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (60 gp). Old masterpiece painting (800 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (800 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (90 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp). Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (60 gp). Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). Old masterpiece painting (800 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She prefers to wear tan clothing when she does not wear armor. She carries a battered halberd and tarnished bastard sword as well. She has done her best to style her blonde hair to look like a famous performer. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. A serious injury left her father unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm father. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Halfling compassion; and a strong sense of loyalty to halfling people

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Shy, Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Debt. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 200 gp. Bloodstone (80 gp). Obsidian (6 gp). Jade (60 gp). Silver pearl (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a physically imposing dark-skinned woman. She wears many layers of old clothing at all times. She has slicked back chestnut hair. Her fierce violet eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. In her 17th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She was granted psionic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Military. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 48000 sp.