Description: She is lean but muscular and dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. She has white hair. She has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Layabout arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Flaws: Insane, Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a mite stocky and is wearing a tight black one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. Her white hair is lengthy. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Her martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to her current location. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 4000 gp. Black pearl (500 gp). Sardonyx (60 gp). Violet garnet (500 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Clear bright green emerald (7000 gp). Jade (90 gp). Aquamarine (500 gp). Black opal (1100 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Moss agate (10 gp). Star rose quartz (60 gp). Peridot (60 gp). Peridot (60 gp). Violet garnet (500 gp). Banded agate (10 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp). Rich purple corundum (1100 gp). Lapis lazuli (10 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. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This tall, slender man sports white clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. He has shaved his head bald. His eyes are amber and beady.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered singing. He has never given up on his singing dream.

Motivation: He is content; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Mundane. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 6000 gp. Smoky quartz (70 gp). Blue quartz (15 gp). Tourmaline (90 gp). Deep green spinel (90 gp). Jet (90 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (15 gp). Iolite (70 gp). Star rose quartz (70 gp). Chalcedony (70 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp). Deep green spinel (90 gp). Blue quartz (15 gp). Chalcedony (70 gp). Violet garnet (700 gp). Golden yellow topaz (700 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (15 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. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears black robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a flail, but if one is not available he will default to his sai. He wears his copper crest up. He is baby faced.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Cynical. Bonds: Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 12000 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (30 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (40 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (900 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1600 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (40 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1600 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (40 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He dresses in violet turtlenecks beneath a grey coat with white slacks. His chestnut hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Aramil isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Half-Elven unity. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Merchant profession.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While he appears to be a normal Half-Elf, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and he has a crush on the local merchant

Ideals: Impeccable, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 7000 gp. Citrine (70 gp). Jet (60 gp). Moonstone (70 gp). Star ruby (1500 gp). Azurite (5 gp). Blue quartz (5 gp). Fire opal (1500 gp). Moss agate (5 gp). Smoky quartz (70 gp). Moonstone (70 gp). Rhodochrosite (5 gp). Red spinel (60 gp). Moonstone (70 gp). Banded agate (5 gp). Red spinel (60 gp). Citrine (70 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears a tattered pair of loose brown pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. He is portly but not overly obese. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy chestnut hair. This violet eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He thrives on attention. He does whatever is in his power to gain the attention of whomever he deems a fit date. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. A freak accident while working with his Sellsword father left him crippled. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out.

Flaws: Hedonist, Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Attractive. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 4000 gp. Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Iolite (30 gp).

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears a black shirt with thin red vertical stripes and black pants. Her chestnut hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. She has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. 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: Gifted from a young age, Ekk studied abroad. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insomniac. Bonds: Family, Military. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: Smoky quartz (50 gp). Jet (140 gp). White opal (1600 gp). Rock crystal (50 gp). Violet garnet (1100 gp). Obsidian (7 gp). Peridot (50 gp). Jade (140 gp). Rhodochrosite (7 gp). Chrysoberyl (140 gp). Iolite (50 gp). Red-brown spinel (140 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp). Bloodstone (50 gp). Iolite (50 gp). Star rose quartz (50 gp). Lapis lazuli (7 gp). Tourmaline (140 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp).