Description: This western man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His green crest has been sun bleached extensively. His red eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Quarethon grew up listening to his mother's many stories. Through the years after Quarethon was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Quarethon's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He has since married many spouses, only to have them die. He claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, In love. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 300 sp. Rhodochrosite (6 gp).

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. Her blonde hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her eyes are likewise gray. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She is a bit of a macho woman and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: Born in the west her family was never financially stable. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way east. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and to reunite with her absent mother

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Nature, Poor, Family. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His long silver hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and expand his business

Flaws: Antagonistic, Lazy. Bonds: Rich, Military, Job. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 230 gp. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: This man dresses in red turtlenecks beneath a grey coat with pastel slacks, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He has silver hair. His eyes are blue and beady.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. 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. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the north were limited. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his glaive with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He wears a colorful flower in his brown hair. His half smiles and hazel eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Justin will drive conversation. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Ideals: Extrovert, Persistence. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 600 sp. 1 Alchemist’s fire.

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 is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. He has done his best to style his white hair to look like a famous performer. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Halfling in existence. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others.

Ideals: Justice, Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 500 sp. Sardonyx (40 gp). 3 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: This woman is very fat, and is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. With bright blonde hair. Her eyes are likewise brown.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. 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: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Tailor arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Opinionated, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: She stands about 5'9" and wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with top hat. Her right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. Her black hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. A true patriot, Beleth would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: She was born in the south. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Tieflings in the south were limited. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of freemasons.

Motivation: She's in love.

Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 1000 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. He has moderate length dark red hair. His black eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. 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 wants to get laid; and he's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Military, Religious, Has a crush. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 300 sp.