Description: He has a missing left arm. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His white hair is cut short. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing music.

History: Taklinn was born with his father's beautiful face. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He now owns his own business.

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

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 2600 sp.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He has white hair. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He hates giants. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: Thorpe was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He then took over the family business and is one of the better Performer for hire.

Motivation: Expand his business; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Enemies, Family, Job, Slave. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: The dark-skinned woman stands 4'0" and wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. She sports a flattop hair cut. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She refers to her adoptive father for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Gurdis was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. In her 11th year, her parents were killed by a drow raid, leaving Gurdis alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: A deep hatred of drow.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Family, Mentor, Enemies. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 21000 sp. Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Red-brown spinel (140 gp). Sard (80 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep brown leather and dull red iron scale mail. He keeps his beige fur in a pixie cut. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. 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 was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 100 sp. Jet (90 gp).

Description: He wears a black vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His blue leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his black boots flare out at the collars. He keeps his white crest in a pixie cut. He has gleaming, smiling red eyes.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Nadarr will drive conversation. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: Nadarr was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Tiefling companion (his 'brother'). He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 90 gp. Jet (70 gp).

Description: She is an average looking southern female in her early mid-life. She wears silk and lounges about seductively. With bright blonde hair. She has a dull look in her hazel eyes.

Personality: She is mildly Elf supremacist, though she does not identify as such. A true patriot, Thiala would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Her mother was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Half-Orc people.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Racist, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: Chrysoberyl (80 gp).

Description: He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly quarterstaffs and shields. His blonde hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a Stetson hat. His blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Ideals: Opinionated. Bonds: Criminal record, Family, Religious, Slave. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She tends to wear a grey poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. She has wavy auburn hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

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. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and expand her business

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich, Military. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 260 gp. A silver and pearl hairclip (60 gp).

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her silver hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. She is baby faced.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She works hard and plays hard.

History: She is a Deep Scion in disguise. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She has dedicated herself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and to reunite with her absent father

Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 400 gp. Fire opal (400 gp). Alexandrite (900 gp). 1 Half-Plate. 1 Breastplate. 1 Half-Plate.