Description: This man dresses in white turtlenecks beneath a pastel coat with white slacks, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He has wavy blonde hair. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is a Stylist first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Gifted from a young age, Stannor studied abroad. His necromantic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Family, Religious. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 4000 gp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (400 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (400 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (2000 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (100 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (150 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (150 gp). Solid gold idol (1200 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (100 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (3000 gp).

Description: She wears black robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a scythe, but if one is not available she will default to her pickaxe. She has dyed her greying blue hair a little too much giving a sharp blue color. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Vapula grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Vapula. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 40 pp. Amethyst (40 gp). 1 Healer’s kit.

Description: This man is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes., and sports empty pouches on his belt. His crest is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: Kaladan was born the youngest of three triplets. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Optimist, Persistence. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 230 pp.

Description: She has the majority of her body covered in plate. She is portly but not overly obese. She is bald on top and has large black tufts of hair around her ears. Her violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She disdains her fellow northerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Born in the north to a Beggar, Faral learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She has achieved small success as a Beggar.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and balancing her hectic life and new beggar responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 300 gp. Rock crystal (70 gp). 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: An older man who wears a simple green robe with yellow stripes complete with hood, he is not a threatening figure. He wears a deerstalker hat to hide his balding. His silver eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Unemployed but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Marbas has worked very hard to control his curse. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Disease, Mundane, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 3000 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (12 gp). Malachite (12 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (12 gp). Citrine (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This light-skinned male wears many layers of old clothing at all times. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. He sports a long golden beard, and similarly colored long hair. His gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the east. His parents enrolled him in a Druid school at a young age so that he could practice his divine talents. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He dresses like a well dressed Sailor does. His beige fur is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: Gifted from a young age, Jade studied abroad. He always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his sickle with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly sickles and whips. He keeps his blue hair in a pixie cut. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Barakas was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Barakas decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats.

Flaws: Shy, Selfish. Bonds: Criminal record, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy dark red stubble. She sports green clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. She has a hunchback. Her deerstalker hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: A powerful brothel owner made her what she is. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south; and to be a fletcher again

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.