Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears long strands of amethyst and short black dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His red hair is thinning but still full. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his red eyes.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: He was born into a rich family. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Justice, Fighting. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 12000 gp. White pearl (120 gp). Aquamarine (300 gp). Carnelian (50 gp). Malachite (10 gp). Sard (50 gp). Bloodstone (50 gp). Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). Deep blue spinel (300 gp). Amber (120 gp). Blue star sapphire (900 gp). Fire opal (900 gp). Brown-green garnet (120 gp). Star ruby (900 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). Jet (120 gp). Rose (50 gp). Aquamarine (300 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his warhammer with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His blonde hair is cut short. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. 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: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

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

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Slave, Adventurer. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 400 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat western woman has a bulbous nose and wears tan trousers with green and grey striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her hair is short and black. Her green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: Baelitae was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Her parents were killed by orcs in a raid when she was still a young child. The orcs captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 700 pp. Obsidian (9 gp). Citrine (50 gp). Azurite (9 gp). Brown-green garnet (60 gp). Peridot (50 gp). Black pearl (300 gp).

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears a brown armored body suit, with a simple black line shooting up and back down. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His skin is flawless and his gray eyes scan people very quickly.

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. Kilvar 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: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Kilvar was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother.

Bonds: Attractive, Family, Mentor, Rich. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 6000 gp. Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Rhodochrosite (16 gp). Aquamarine (1100 gp). Amber (90 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (16 gp). Zircon (50 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty brown coat over it. He carries with him a set of scimitars on his belt, each one with a ruby on the hilt. His brown fur is smooth and relatively long. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady blue eyes.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Unemployed who has hired him part-time. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. In his 15th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Fragrant fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Has a crush, Nature. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 10000 gp. Azurite (13 gp). Rhodochrosite (13 gp). Alexandrite (900 gp). Aquamarine (900 gp). Violet garnet (900 gp). Red-brown spinel (90 gp). Rock crystal (20 gp). Canary diamond (8000 gp). Rose (20 gp). Obsidian (13 gp).

Description: This man is very fat, and wears a black cloak and cross-gartered blue stockings. He keeps his black hair in a pixie cut. His black unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He is a great chef.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when drow swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. After coming to the age of reason, Purson took it upon himself to study the martial arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He was granted martial powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 1100 pp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (5000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1900 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1900 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1200 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). Gold music box (3000 gp). Gold and ruby ring (2000 gp). Gold and ruby ring (2000 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (40 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (40 gp). Solid gold idol (1200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (7000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1900 gp).

Description: This slender woman stands about 3'3". She wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her moppish red hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: She was born into a rich family. A serious injury left her father unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm father. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Debt. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 12000 gp. Red spinel (160 gp). Azurite (4 gp). Freshwater pearl (4 gp). Chrysoberyl (160 gp). Zircon (50 gp). Moonstone (50 gp). Alexandrite (1600 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp).