Description: Standing 4'1", this man is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He sports a long golden beard, and similarly colored long hair. He has green eyes.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: He comes from a rich western family. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 270 gp.

Description: He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His crest is gold and curly. His gold unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: Gifted from a young age, Shamash studied abroad. He always admired druidic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him.

Ideals: Disciplined, Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her shortspear with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her blue hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her red eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: When she was but 4 years old her parents immigrated from the north. Naamah was born on a far northern mountains where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Butcher. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and to prove her worth to the world

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, Selfish. Bonds: Immigrant, Poor. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Dwarves. His skin is light but he possesses many blue ritualistic tattoos. He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His blonde hair is heavily combed to the right. His blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: Born to a Tailor, his mother struggled to pay the bills. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Gilthur was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: 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.

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 400 sp. Black pearl (300 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp).

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He has moderate length silver hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Dilettante arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Being born in the north, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the north for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Hunter they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Dilettante, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and money/treasure

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Insomniac, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Halflings. Her skin is dark but she possesses many black ritualistic tattoos. She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. Her hair is long and brown with streaks of white, and is pulled back with small white clips. Her hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage son.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. When Myria reached her early adolescence her Halfling father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Military, Religious. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: Deep blue spinel (200 gp).

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Elf, and stands approximately 4'7". He wears a blue armored body suit, with a simple grey line shooting up and back down, and his gloved hand is found clutching a falchion. His moppish white hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. On top of that he is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to his employer will always come first he doesn't like to hit women.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Half-Elven artifacts is his passion.

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: Silver ewer (30 gp).

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His black hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. 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 is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Silvo 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 Silvo. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Sage responsibilities is difficult; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He dresses well, wearing black shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time, and he perpetually has his whip ready. His blue hair is lengthy. His black unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Elven companion (his 'brother'). He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality.

Ideals: Fighting, Opinionated. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: Just what you see.