Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He prefers to wear green pants and tee shirts. His silver hair has been sun bleached extensively. His black eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Herbalist. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He is an amazing painter.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the desert to a summer home near a large cave. He would wander through that large cave and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the desert due to the painful memories there. Forcas took refuge in the large cave and found the beat up greatsword and armor he uses now. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Job, Military, Nature, Family. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 11000 gp. Aquamarine (300 gp). Sardonyx (80 gp). Rock crystal (80 gp). Emerald (1000 gp). Jasper (80 gp). Aquamarine (300 gp). Black star sapphire (1000 gp). Pink pearl (140 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he dresses like a well dressed Tailor does. He sports a flattop hair cut. His eyes are a pleasant green.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: Godfrey was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 14 years.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 2000 gp. Freshwater pearl (9 gp). White opal (1400 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1500 gp). Violet garnet (1500 gp). Coral (160 gp). Blue quartz (9 gp). Sard (60 gp). Amber (160 gp). Obsidian (9 gp). Peridot (60 gp). White opal (1400 gp). Chalcedony (60 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Red-brown spinel (160 gp). Red garnet (160 gp). Hematite (9 gp). Freshwater pearl (9 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: The light-skinned man stands 5'0" and usually wears his blue robe and has his lance always slung over his shoulder. His golden hair is matted, messy, and big. His ears are large.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Born in the north to a Bookbinder, Heian learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. A serious injury left his mother unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm mother. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He is greedy; and expand his business

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job, Debt. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 4000 gp. Moss agate (5 gp). Freshwater pearl (5 gp). Star rose quartz (50 gp). Blue quartz (5 gp). Iolite (50 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp). Amber (70 gp). Blue star sapphire (1100 gp).

Description: He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He wears a small hat to hide his balding. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. His psionic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and obtaining odd cultural elven artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac, Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 2000 gp. Chrysoprase (30 gp). Azurite (10 gp). Rock crystal (30 gp). Banded agate (10 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (10 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She is dressed in earthy colors with a brown and pastel handkerchief worn on her left side. Her black fur is braided into rings. She has gleaming, smiling copper eyes.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this southern gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Laborer for the past few years.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and she would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 700 pp. Rhodochrosite (5 gp). Black pearl (1300 gp). Banded agate (5 gp). Rose (50 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1300 gp). Eye agate (5 gp). Obsidian (5 gp). Brown-green garnet (90 gp). Violet garnet (1300 gp). Alexandrite (1300 gp). Moss agate (5 gp). Azurite (5 gp). White opal (800 gp). Hematite (5 gp). Blue quartz (5 gp).

Description: He wears a blue wide-brimmed hat and blue clothes. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He has wavy auburn hair. He has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Performer born in the past three hundred years. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: He was born in the south. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Elves in the south were limited. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and he loathes his own lifestyle

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 13000 gp. Solid gold idol (900 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (80 gp). Gold and ruby ring (7000 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2300 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (4000 gp). Solid gold idol (900 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (80 gp). Silver ewer (80 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (700 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Solid gold idol (900 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). Jeweled gold crown (4000 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (3000 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (80 gp). Solid gold idol (900 gp). 1 Major magic item.

Description: 5'5" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. With a patchy golden beard and wild golden hair. His violet eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

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 has achieved small success as a Priest.

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

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job, Slave. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: Eye agate (8 gp). Star rose quartz (20 gp). Lapis lazuli (8 gp). Rhodochrosite (8 gp). Black star sapphire (1100 gp). Freshwater pearl (8 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.