Description: This man wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized emerald on his left hand. His silver hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His eyes are amber and beady.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 600 gp. Smoky quartz (20 gp). Sardonyx (20 gp). Red-brown spinel (150 gp). Carnelian (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This northern woman is abnormally tall. She wears a robe, a symbol of death around her neck, and a longbow on her belt. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. She wears her silver hair up. Her green eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Veloptima grew up listening to her mother's many stories. Veloptima was born on a far northern desert where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Brewer. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Veloptima fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist, Extrovert. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 500 gp. Black pearl (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears a blue tunic with grey highlights, and long black pants that bunch up around his shoes. He has a long auburn beard with little hanging trinkets. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his brown eyes.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: Hadarai was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. While he appears to be a normal Elf, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Hadarai was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: He wants revenge against illithids.

Ideals: Justice, Persistence. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. He is portly but not overly obese. His blonde hair is smooth and relatively long. His eyes are likewise hazel.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he wants revenge against gnolls

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Addict, Insane. Bonds: Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. She wears a brown shirt with thin red vertical stripes and yellow pants. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. She has done her best to style her golden hair to look like a famous performer. She has a dull look in her amber eyes.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this northern gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Masseuse arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Helja has worked very hard to control her curse. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

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

Flaws: Disease, Shy. Bonds: Slave, Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears dull tan sweaters, loose blue pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed flail, just in case. He has a blonde handlebar mustache and slicked back blonde hair. He has a dull look in his gray eyes.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Frug was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Fisher. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a white cloak and cross-gartered black stockings, and a wedding ring on his left hand. He wears a broad hat to cover his moderate length golden hair. His eyes are hazel and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: He was born at the edge of vast plains. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: In love, Slave, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her chestnut hair is knotted and matted. Her violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

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 receives visions of the future at random moments

History: She was born in a small forest village. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She was granted necromantic powers by her dying sister.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. Her black hair is still thick. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Glassblower. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

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. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Glassblower responsibilities is difficult; and to be a miner again

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 2800 gp.