Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. He is an epitome of beauty. With a patchy auburn beard and wild auburn hair. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Bertram embodies much of what other species detest in the Halflings. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: Bertram was born with his father's beautiful face. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He has achieved small success as a Detective.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and to be a spice merchant again

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Slave. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 290 gp.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He is an epitome of beauty. His white hair is thinning but still full. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He hates drow. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. In his 10th year, his parents were killed by a drow raid, leaving Naal alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to drow demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and he wants revenge against drow

Ideals: Artistic, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 260 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman, and he perpetually has his shortspear ready. His long silver hair reaches down to his waist. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. 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. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. He has a auburn handlebar mustache and slicked back auburn hair. His ears are large.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. 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: To share knowledge with the world; and money/treasure

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Servant

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 2000 sp.

Description: 5'4" and muscular, this southern woman dresses like a well dressed Bather does. With bright chestnut hair. Her amber eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: When she was but 3 years old her parents immigrated from the south. She worked as a nervous Bather and found it very stressful. She's also a talented Actor, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized tan coat. She has no hair. Her green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. She has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Shy. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he typically wears grey cloth garments or leather armor. With bright black hair and a scraggly beard. His fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: Manfred was born the youngest of three triplets. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has since married many spouses, only to have them die. He claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and to reunite with his absent mother

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Family, In love. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she is well dressed, constantly wearing a black suit, brown shirt, and white tie. Her chestnut hair, when down, is lengthy. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep hazel.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and balancing her hectic life and new spice merchant responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Cynical, Fearful. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 1 Silk rope.

Description: He has a missing right arm. He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He wears a top hat to hide his balding. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his hazel eyes.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his writing with anyone who is interested.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 300 sp. Rhodochrosite (6 gp).