Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His copper crest has been sun bleached extensively. His red eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He has all his life been fascinated with writing.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Direcris was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He worked as a nervous Body Guard and found it very stressful. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Body Guard for hire.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Religious, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 90 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. She has shaved her head bald. Her eyes are brown and beady.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. Robbie enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She was born into a rich family. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 390 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He wears suspenders and green workpants. His shirt is tan, and he wears a heavy green leather apron most of the time. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His brown hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a dagger scrunchie. His eyes are red and catlike.

Personality: He is mildly Tiefling supremacist, though he does not identify as such. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: He is greedy; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Family, Mentor, Job, Rich. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: She wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. She carries with her a set of tridents on her belt, each one with a emerald on the hilt. Her blonde hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Vonana isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Dwarven unity. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Vonana 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; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 400 gp. Black pearl (500 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears blue trousers with green and blue striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts, and a wedding ring on her right hand. With bright black hair. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: Faral hails from a village terrorized by orcs. She has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by orcs. Faral was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the orcs.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and she doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes

Ideals: Impeccable, Artistic. Bonds: In love, Military, Enemies. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. She is bald on top and has large golden tufts of hair around her ears. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Nature. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 5000 cp. Tiger eye turquoise (16 gp).

Description: He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright blue and black, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 3'8" when asserting himself. His chestnut hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his music with anyone who is interested.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Artistic, Athletic. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Rich, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears a worn and beaten armor. Her fur is brown and curly. Her eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: She is a Servant first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. In her 20th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand her business; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Justice, Artistic. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 100 sp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This man stands a little under 4'1" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He is dressed in earthy colors with a brown and black handkerchief worn on his right side. His white hair is heavily combed to the right. This brown eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Architect. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: Nalral hails from a village terrorized by drow. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. He has achieved small success as a Architect.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and to be a scribe again

Bonds: Job, Rich, Enemies, In love, Has a crush. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 100 gp. Blue star sapphire (600 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.