Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears a fancy grey suit. He has red hair. His amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Half-Orc companion (his 'brother'). He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 5000 cp. 3 Antitoxin.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. With bright auburn hair and a scraggly beard. His amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family A freak accident while working with his Servant father left him crippled. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and to pay off his debts

Flaws: Mundane, Disease. Bonds: Criminal record, Debt. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 150 pp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: He is wearing a long, grey, dusty cloak. He is physically well-built. He has done his best to style his red hair to look like a famous performer. His fierce violet eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Sailor arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Oskar was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Oskar decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: To settle down with his crush; and he's in love

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich, Has a crush. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: This man wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His blonde hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Blacksmith arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and many brigands want him driven away

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Lazy, Addict. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. He is physically well-built. With bright golden hair and a scraggly beard. He has a dull look in his violet eyes.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He found a children's book about a Halfling Sorcerer who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he's looking for his big break

Flaws: Greedy, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 30 pp. Deep blue spinel (300 gp). Alexandrite (300 gp).

Description: She has a missing right leg. She wears red trousers with white and pastel striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. Her blonde hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines amber.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: She was born in the south, but her parents moved at a very young age to the north. Verna was born on a far southern plains where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Barkeep. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Passionate, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He is portly but not overly obese. He keeps his long golden hair kept up in a rat tail. He has hazel eyes.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Butcher business.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Bhevek was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Bhevek grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Bhevek. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: Revenge; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Mentor, Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 30 pp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He typically wears brown cloth garments or leather armor. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His half smiles and hazel eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. 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, Kildrak is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

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. While he appears to be a normal Dwarf, 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 made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Athletic, Justice. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 100 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (800 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (110 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears professional attire. He keeps his long blue crest kept up in a rat tail. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Mason. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He became a Mason soon after.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero.

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 700 sp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (80 gp).