Description: This man is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing green cape and mantle trimmed with soft grey waves gently in the breeze. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His green crest is thinning but still full. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are red.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. 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 born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and money/treasure

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Server

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He has dyed his greying blonde hair a little too much giving a sharp blonde color. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep brown.

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. 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, Alex is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Slave Trader arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 10 years.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her chestnut hair is thinning but still full. She has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: She is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. She also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: She comes from a rich northern family. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal.

Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Rich, Nature. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 200 gp. Silver pearl (150 gp). Chalcedony (60 gp). Chrysoberyl (150 gp).

Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He wears a black costume with the symbols of luck on his torso. His small hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His red eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. When Habor reached his early adolescence his Tiefling father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 200 gp. Hematite (11 gp).

Description: Her left side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears a black feathered hat and black clothes. Her blue hair is matted, messy, and big. Her silver eyes peer out from beneath her feathered black hat.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: She was raised in a island tribe. Lilith abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature sword.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 23000 cp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (300 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (160 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears pastel leather gloves, a pastel jacket, and tight pants. She wears a feathered hat to cover her moderate length gray fur. Her eyes are blue and beady.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Ethereal was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. Ethereal liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and to reunite with her absent mother

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Selfish. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears tattered old clothes. He wears a deerstalker hat to hide his balding. His gold eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Valorean 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 Valorean. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable.

Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Job, Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: She wears a black cloak and cross-gartered green stockings. She has slicked back brown hair. She has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: She loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from her. She is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Half-Orc in existence. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the south. A serious injury left her mother unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm mother. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Debt. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 290 gp.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 4'4" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears a brown costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on his torso. His head has been shaved. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: To end his boredom; 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: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 240 gp. 1 Silk rope.