Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. She wears a broad hat to hide her balding. This yellow eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: She was raised in a desert tribe. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature rapier.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son; and wants to raise her children well

Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 6000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears light armors faded through time and improper care. His red hair is long and unkept. His eyes are a pleasant violet.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Slave Trader business.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 3000 gp. Moss agate (9 gp). Moss agate (9 gp). Jade (80 gp). Black opal (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This late middle aged woman wears a white feathered hat and white clothes and is in decent physical shape. Her moppish red hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes goblins are coming to abduct people. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. 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: She feels threatened by others; and she wants revenge against goblins

Flaws: Selfish, Fearful. Bonds: Enemies, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: He typically wears white cloth garments or leather armor. His silver hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. 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: The child of a Sculptor, who enjoyed hunting, Ar-Baruk was taken on many hunting expeditions. Ar-Baruk abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire; and to be a sculptor again

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Job, Nature, Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 90 gp. 4 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His chestnut hair is braided into rings. His amber eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. He plays an instrument quite well.

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. After a long history of fighting, Gimble and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 600 pp. Chrysoberyl (150 gp). Red-brown spinel (150 gp). Blue quartz (14 gp). Violet garnet (200 gp). Deep green spinel (150 gp). Hematite (14 gp). Chalcedony (30 gp). Star rose quartz (30 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears just a brown suit. His brown hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. This gray eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this northern guy figured out how to best use his charms to convince people to do what he wants. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: He's attracted to the PC; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Has a crush. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Tourmaline (60 gp). Zircon (70 gp). 3 Holy water.

Description: With brown face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he has the majority of his body covered in plate. His hair is long and golden with streaks of auburn, and is pulled back with small brown clips. His beard is auburn, braided, and well cared for. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: Gunter is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. 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: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 40000 cp. Alexandrite (800 gp).

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears a tattered pair of loose violet pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. With bright auburn hair and a scraggly beard. His blue eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He is an amazing painter.

History: He was born in a small island village. After coming to the age of reason, Patrick took it upon himself to study the martial arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He dresses in grey turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with blue slacks. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Nordak was raised in a hard working conservative environment. In his 12th year, his parents were killed by a giants raid, leaving Nordak alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and balancing his hectic life and new animal trainer responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: Chrysoberyl (150 gp). Tourmaline (150 gp). Citrine (80 gp). 1 Simple lock.