Description: This exceptionally lanky man is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His moppish blonde hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 1200 pp. Alexandrite (200 gp). Jade (60 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears a tight fitting tan shirt and pants. His blonde hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: A powerful slaver made him what he is. His psionic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He was granted psionic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Greedy. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 16000 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (500 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (3000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp).

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She very much looks the part of a Painter. Her Stetson hat is riddled with cuts and holes. She has a dull look in her green eyes.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Painter. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

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

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 4000 gp. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears tattered old clothes. His lavender fur is drawn into a tight pony tail with a clover scrunchie. This hazel eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Spice Merchant business.

History: The child of a Roofer, who enjoyed hunting, Sweet was taken on many hunting expeditions. In his 12th year, his parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Sweet alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Sweet fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Revenge; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 5000 gp. Rock crystal (40 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (7 gp). Citrine (40 gp). Silver pearl (40 gp). Malachite (7 gp). Jade (40 gp). Pink pearl (40 gp). Golden yellow topaz (500 gp). Iolite (40 gp). Malachite (7 gp). Freshwater pearl (7 gp). Golden yellow topaz (500 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (500 gp). Violet garnet (500 gp). Star rose quartz (40 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Rhodochrosite (7 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.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His hair is long and red with streaks of golden, and is pulled back with small grey clips. His beard is golden, braided, and well cared for. His eyes are likewise brown.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered music. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur, Artistic. Bonds: Poor, Slave. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 1200 pp. Blue quartz (12 gp). Golden pearl (90 gp). Black pearl (1200 gp). Moss agate (12 gp). Rose (50 gp). Jade (90 gp). Black pearl (1200 gp). Violet garnet (1200 gp). Rose (50 gp). Aquamarine (1200 gp). Violet garnet (1200 gp). Hematite (12 gp). Malachite (12 gp). Blue quartz (12 gp). Pink pearl (90 gp). Rock crystal (50 gp).

Description: This woman is very fat, and is renowned for her bright black dresses and hats. Her auburn hair is greasy and uncared for. Her gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. Arha is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her sisters into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Arha has worked very hard to control her curse. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 11000 gp. Carnelian (30 gp). Obsidian (6 gp). Azurite (6 gp). Red spinel (120 gp). Lapis lazuli (6 gp). Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). Canary diamond (4000 gp). Violet garnet (1000 gp). Black star sapphire (1500 gp). Freshwater pearl (6 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1000 gp). Carnelian (30 gp). Banded agate (6 gp). Rich purple corundum (1500 gp). Malachite (6 gp). Citrine (30 gp). Golden pearl (120 gp).

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears silk and lounges about seductively. His gray fur is still thick. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. River is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: He was raised in a plains tribe. 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 searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and obtaining odd cultural gnomish artifacts is his passion

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 5000 gp. Zircon (80 gp). Blue star sapphire (1600 gp). Blue sapphire (1600 gp). Blue quartz (11 gp).