Description: This man is tall and muscular. He is dressed in earthy colors with a black and brown handkerchief worn on his left side. His moppish golden hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His eyes are green.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Pâsh was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He worked as a nervous Fortune-teller and found it very stressful. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Fortune-teller for hire.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Fortune-teller responsibilities is difficult; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Shy, PTSD. Bonds: Job, Mentor. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 160 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp).

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He prefers to wear flannel. His hair is red and very short. He has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. Naeris enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered poetry. He was granted arcane powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Opinionated, Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: The dark-skinned woman stands 5'1" and wears baggy white pantaloons and a pastel scarf. Her chestnut hair is greasy and uncared for. Her blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when giants swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to giants demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 3000 gp. A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (30 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (30 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (90 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1700 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1700 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (90 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (90 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1000 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (90 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He tends to wear a large red jacket. His red hair is smooth and relatively long. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He does not care much for physical appearances, nor does he care much for other people. He does however care about what he wants and getting it. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: A powerful brothel owner made him what he is. A gifted student he started as a Sculptor, but he got bored and became a Roofer. He's also a talented Sculptor, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and he is content

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 1000 gp. Freshwater pearl (9 gp).

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he prefers to wear green clothing when he does not wear armor. He has moderate length red crest. His gold eyes peer out from beneath his broad green hat.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He has worked as a Fortune-teller like his mother before him.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Flaws: Emotional, Insomniac. Bonds: Slave, Job. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 90000 cp. Deep blue spinel (1200 gp). Banded agate (12 gp).

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Half-Elves. His skin is light but he possesses many red ritualistic tattoos. He tends to wear a large violet jacket. He has shaved his head bald. His green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Layabout. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

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

Ideals: Joker, Optimist. Bonds: Military, Job. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears a worn and beaten armor. His hair is silver, silky, and of moderate length. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: Hubert was raised in a hard working conservative environment. While he appears to be a normal Human, 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. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Insane, Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 120 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is wearing a long, blue, dusty cloak. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly longswords and shortspears. His moppish black hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His green eyes peer out from beneath his small blue hat.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Elf in existence. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: Paelias 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 west. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well.

Ideals: Justice, Fighting. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature, Family. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 3000 gp. Blue sapphire (500 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (500 gp). Citrine (40 gp). Blue quartz (4 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. She wears a colorful flower in her gold crest. She is baby faced.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Blendaeth was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Blendaeth decided she wanted neither the life of her father nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. Being a Barber kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and to end her boredom

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Addict, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Criminal record. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 700 gp.