Description: A stocky lighter skinned man, he is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. He has no hair. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He got into the Engraver business at a young age. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He has worked as a Engraver like his father before him.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Job, Slave. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 300 pp. Golden yellow topaz (700 gp). Star rose quartz (60 gp). Rich purple corundum (1600 gp). Deep blue spinel (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 6'3" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized green coat. Her brown hair is lengthy. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: When she was but 4 years old her parents immigrated from the north. While she appears to be a normal Tiefling, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Flaws: Insane, Shy. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: Coral (110 gp). Hematite (11 gp). Rock crystal (50 gp). Sardonyx (50 gp). Freshwater pearl (11 gp). Chrysoprase (50 gp). Star rose quartz (50 gp). Aquamarine (500 gp). Moss agate (11 gp). Rose (50 gp). Fire opal (1300 gp). Blue star sapphire (1300 gp). Citrine (50 gp). Hematite (11 gp). Eye agate (11 gp). Golden yellow topaz (500 gp). Moonstone (50 gp). Violet garnet (500 gp). Jade (110 gp). Freshwater pearl (11 gp). Hematite (11 gp). Blue sapphire (1300 gp). Black pearl (500 gp). Sardonyx (50 gp). Pink pearl (110 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: With blue face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He wears his brown hair down. His hazel eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing painting.

History: When he was but 3 years old his parents immigrated from the west. Ostracized due to the martial powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dwarves became a terror of the countryside. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Philantrophist, Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 2000 gp. Moss agate (15 gp). White pearl (70 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She keeps her chestnut hair in a flapper bob. She has white eyes and a green hat with a black feather.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She was granted psionic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Bonds: Military, Religious. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 700 pp. A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (150 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1500 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1600 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (4000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (150 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (100 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Solid gold idol (1000 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (5000 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (100 gp).

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears a robe, a symbol of the four houses of cards around her neck, and a warhammer on her belt. Her red crest is matted, messy, and big. She has a dull look in her gold eyes.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Kava is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the north. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Dragonborns in the north were limited. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 1700 pp. Blue quartz (16 gp). Silver pearl (60 gp). Emerald (1300 gp). Blue quartz (16 gp). Moss agate (16 gp). Moonstone (30 gp). Jet (60 gp). Star rose quartz (30 gp). Brown-green garnet (60 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp). Golden pearl (60 gp). Coral (60 gp). Fire opal (1300 gp). Deep green spinel (60 gp). Banded agate (16 gp). Black pearl (700 gp). Pink pearl (60 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She wears a tight fitting green shirt and pants. She carries with her a set of nunchakus, each one with a jet on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her hair, while still mostly silver, has prominent grey streaks. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady silver eyes.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. A true patriot, Osah would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: Osah was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Osah has worked very hard to control her curse. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and expand her business

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Military, Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 1100 pp. Rhodochrosite (8 gp). Malachite (8 gp). Amber (80 gp). Blue star sapphire (1300 gp). Carnelian (40 gp). Aquamarine (300 gp). Deep blue spinel (300 gp). Chalcedony (40 gp). Chrysoprase (40 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). Peridot (40 gp). Alexandrite (300 gp). Jade (80 gp). Freshwater pearl (8 gp). Star ruby (1300 gp). Alexandrite (300 gp).

Description: This tall, slender man wears a tattered pair of loose tan pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. His Stetson hat is riddled with cuts and holes. This amber eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he feels threatened by others

Flaws: Ugly, Selfish, Forgetful. Bonds: Poor, Slave. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 4000 gp. Fiery yellow corundum (900 gp). Jade (110 gp). Black pearl (500 gp). Bloodstone (80 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (7 gp). Coral (110 gp). Golden yellow topaz (500 gp). Eye agate (7 gp). Moonstone (80 gp). Blue sapphire (900 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp). Malachite (7 gp). Onyx (80 gp). Tourmaline (110 gp).