Description: He wears a simple grey robe with brown stripes complete with hood. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his shortspear, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a skull on it. His chestnut hair is heavily combed to the right. His green eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Herbalist profession.

History: Nicholas lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. While he appears to be a normal Human, 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 set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Secretive, Insane. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: This western woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears a tattered pair of loose black pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. She has no crest. Her eyes are red and catlike.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She is kind towards other women and children and will generally offer women help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to her.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. She advanced relatively quickly due to her good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

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

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Poor, Military. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: This man stands a little under 6'4" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a pastel coat. He wears a small hat to cover his moderate length brown fur. He has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He seeks to pay back kindness whenever he gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip he always seeks to do solids for his friends.

History: Gale was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Mason work with an outfit from a few towns over. Mason work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Mason responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 800 sp. 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his longsword with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He has no hair. His amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: This man loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. His psionic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter.

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Nature. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 1500 sp. Pink pearl (90 gp).

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with yellow lining and desert motifs. His tied-back hair is black. His violet eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Half-Elves in the east were limited. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. Her brown hair is thinning but still full. Her blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Tiefling artifacts is her passion.

Flaws: Depressed, Selfish. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This malnourished man dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His head has been shaved. His blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 900 sp.

Description: She wears a black coat over a brown low-cut shirt, and a wide-brimmed hat upon her head, and she perpetually has her club ready. Her black hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a cross scrunchie. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

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 Tiefling in existence. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. 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. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Seddit 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 she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Flaws: Insane, Addict, Mundane. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She has styled her chestnut hair well, parting it to the right. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are blue.

Personality: She is envious of other's things. She hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that she so desires. As she has aged she has sought to do reparations for her actions as a youth. She is also making sure that her compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: Born in the west her family was never financially stable. She moved out south to avoid the crime she committed. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Justice. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 20 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.