Description: He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He is physically well-built. His auburn hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Trag lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and to unite with his sister

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Family, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 5000 gp. A roughly beaten golden orb (170 gp). Old masterpiece painting (600 gp).

Description: She wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt, and she perpetually has her warhammer ready. She has slicked back golden hair. Her blue eyes peer out from beneath her broad blue hat.

Personality: She is a hateful person. She taunts others and blames them for her problems. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: The child of a Bather, who enjoyed hunting, Vaina was taken on many hunting expeditions. Her childhood dream was to be a Bather, but she was a colossal failure. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and a deep hatred of giants

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 6000 gp. Moss agate (5 gp). Rock crystal (30 gp). Peridot (30 gp). Rhodochrosite (5 gp). Blue quartz (5 gp). Carnelian (30 gp). Golden pearl (40 gp). Jet (40 gp). Red spinel (40 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

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. She has done her best to style her blue hair to look like a famous performer. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Purah was raised in a hard working conservative environment. 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 Ploughman. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Ploughman responsibilities is difficult; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 7000 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Jeweled gold crown (5000 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1200 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (1000 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (1000 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (100 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (500 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (100 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1600 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (100 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (130 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (130 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp). Jeweled anklet (2000 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1600 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (130 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (130 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1600 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (130 gp). 1 Major magic item.

Description: This slender man stands about 5'1". He likes to wear violet tank tops with brown pants. His silver hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His ears are large.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. Shane is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 north. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Family, Slave. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 5000 gp. Blue quartz (11 gp). Alexandrite (1400 gp). Freshwater pearl (11 gp). Emerald (500 gp). Red spinel (80 gp).

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 wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His crest is copper and very short. His red eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Trynnicus was born with his mother's beautiful face. Through the years after Trynnicus was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Trynnicus's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 700 pp. Lapis lazuli (12 gp). Smoky quartz (50 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he is well dressed, constantly wearing a brown suit, tan shirt, and black tie. His brown hair is unkempt and raggedy. His eyes are brown.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born in the north. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 700 pp. Lapis lazuli (15 gp). Black pearl (1200 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1200 gp). White pearl (140 gp). Rose (20 gp). Peridot (20 gp). Rhodochrosite (15 gp). Moonstone (20 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (15 gp). Moss agate (15 gp). Citrine (20 gp). Sard (20 gp). Banded agate (15 gp).

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a black coat. Her crest is short and silver. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. 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-sister.

History: Jezean was born with her father's beautiful face. Her father disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her father, she was betrayed dozens of times. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father.

Ideals: Justice, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 5000 gp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2100 gp). Gold music box (4000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (60 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (60 gp).