Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. His hair is cut close to his head. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: Erias is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Erias was raised in a hard working conservative environment. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the mountains to a summer home near a ruined castle. He would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the mountains due to the painful memories there. Erias took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up falchion and armor he uses now. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand his business; and to be a map maker again

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Job, Nature. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is a pot bellied northern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She is wearing a long, brown, dusty cloak. Her fur, while still mostly red, has prominent grey streaks. She has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Bowyer for the past few years.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and balancing her hectic life and new bowyer responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Shy, Forgetful. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 270 gp.

Description: This slender man stands about 3'3". He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. His white hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He has a dull look in his violet eyes.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

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

Bonds: Guardian, Military, Slave, Job. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This malnourished woman wears dull red sweaters, loose green pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed monstrous two handed axe, just in case. She has done her best to style her black hair to look like a famous performer. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs.

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: This man stands a little under 6'10" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears a simple green robe with blue stripes complete with hood. His chestnut hair is greasy and uncared for. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: Born to a Guard, his father struggled to pay the bills. When Leucis 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 now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Military. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 20 gp. A delicate brass dragon egg (90 gp).

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears dull tan sweaters, loose brown pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed whip, just in case. Her moppish blonde hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: The child of eastern immigrants she idolized her mother. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She's also a talented Shoemaker, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety; and to be a shoemaker again

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 1300 sp.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 5'4" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She is wearing a long, black cloak. Her silver hair is smooth and relatively long. Her half smiles and gray eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She 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. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature sai.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and obtaining odd cultural half-orc artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears a pastel tunic with violet highlights, and long brown pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her white fur is heavily combed to the right. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her amber eyes.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 1000 cp. 1 Magnifying glass.

Description: A 2'10" northern man, he wears dark leathers with embroidery. He sports a flattop hair cut. He has gray eyes.

Personality: Bulzo is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. Bulzo enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He got into the Barber business at a young age. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. 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: Doesn't want to be a Barber and was forced into it by his family; and regain custody of his son

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Rich, Family. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: Jasper (30 gp). Chrysoberyl (160 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.