Description: He very much looks the part of a Animal Trainer, and he perpetually has his club ready. He has a very tight haircut. His hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Born to a Tanner, his father struggled to pay the bills. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 10 years.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Animal Trainer responsibilities is difficult; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 280 gp.

Description: This northern man is abnormally tall. He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He has a very tight haircut. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. He works hard and plays hard.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the north were limited. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and he is content

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Hedonist, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears a black coat over a brown low-cut shirt, and a Stetson hat upon his head. His gold crest is smooth and relatively long. His eyes are gold.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Maagog is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Maagog lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Through the years after Maagog was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Maagog's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He tends to his Blacksmith job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 2000 cp. Freshwater pearl (13 gp).

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she is wearing a tight green one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. She has done her best to style her gold crest to look like a famous performer. Her gold eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 15. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Blacksmith but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. She worked as a nervous Blacksmith and found it very stressful. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Blacksmith for the past few years.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Insane, Mundane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a grey coat, and she perpetually has her sai ready. Her chestnut hair is lengthy. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her singing with anyone who is interested.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Cynical. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 90 gp. Silver pearl (120 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: He wears a violet costume with the symbols of death on his torso. He has moderate length black hair. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of illithids may trigger it at times.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the north. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: Expand his business; and wants to open a new tavern

Bonds: Criminal record, Enemies, Immigrant, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This slender woman stands about 6'6". She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. Her rusty crest is smooth and relatively long. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: The child of southern immigrants she idolized her mother. When the war came and ruined her parents she was left adrift. She was a hard woman then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things.

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, PTSD. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 500 sp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (110 gp). 1 Good lock.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. Her red hair is smooth and relatively long. This red eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes illithids are coming to abduct people. The war was a terrible time for her, and Bune does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She married young, but lost her spouse to illithids. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by illithids. Bune was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Enemies, Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 240 gp.

Description: This man is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized ruby on his right hand. He sports a flattop hair cut. His amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Dwarves.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Scribe arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He worked as a nervous Scribe and found it very stressful. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Disease, Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 310 gp. 1 Chain shirt.