Description: He is a pot bellied southern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light black in addition to tight pants. His black hair is braided into rings. His eyes are likewise black. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of orcs may trigger it at times.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to orcs demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Courier

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 1700 pp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1700 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1700 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (700 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (3000 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (3000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (3000 gp). Solid gold idol (600 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (30 gp). A small bag of saffron. (100 gp). Jeweled anklet (4000 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1700 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Her left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. Her brown fur, when down, is lengthy. She has green eyes.

Personality: Cask wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Druid, so she tries to act the part. She does a good job, for the most part... She pushes her goals aggressively. She is also a coward if confronted.

History: Cask was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 11000 gp. Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Blue quartz (10 gp). Jet (150 gp). Aquamarine (500 gp).

Description: This eastern man is abnormally tall. He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His brown eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Sage born in the past three hundred years. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Oloric 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. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Sage.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Poor, Religious. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 7000 gp. Blue quartz (12 gp). White opal (800 gp). Star rose quartz (70 gp). Jasper (70 gp).

Description: She wears brown painted combat armor at almost all times. She is physically well-built. Her orange fur is matted, messy, and big. Her blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: Born in the east to a Butcher, Three learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. 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 Butcher. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Butcher.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and expand her business

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 1000 gp.

Description: He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with green lining and desert motifs. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his longsword, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a rose on it. He keeps his long black crest kept up in a rat tail. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. A freak accident while working with his Actor mother left him crippled. 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 feels kind of lost in life; and he loathes his own lifestyle

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Depressed, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 4000 gp. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is an average looking eastern female in her early mid-life. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her shield with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She has moderate length silver hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Beatrice grew up listening to her father's many stories. While she appears to be a normal Human, 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 has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insomniac, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 4000 gp. Moonstone (20 gp). Moonstone (20 gp).

Description: This woman stands a little under 4'9" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She wears an entirely black suit with tan socks and a vest with buckled shoes. Her blonde hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a clover scrunchie. She has gray eyes.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She is a great chef.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. After coming to the age of reason, Bendoo took it upon herself to study the psionic arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Gifted, Impeccable. Flaws: Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 11000 gp. Citrine (40 gp). Black opal (1100 gp). Blue quartz (6 gp). Sard (40 gp). Silver pearl (160 gp). Smoky quartz (40 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). Banded agate (6 gp). Lapis lazuli (6 gp). Peridot (40 gp). Blue quartz (6 gp). Deep green spinel (160 gp). Malachite (6 gp). Lapis lazuli (6 gp). Rock crystal (40 gp). Malachite (6 gp). Azurite (6 gp). Deep blue spinel (300 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.