Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He wears a white vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His blue leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his white boots flare out at the collars. He has styled his black hair well, parting it to the left. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Azdûsh was born on a far western mountains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Layabout. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Sage they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Layabout, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Rich, Family. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 100 gp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (90 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she usually wears her tan robe and has her warhammer always slung over her shoulder. Her white hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She was raised in a mountains tribe. She worked as a nervous Ploughman and found it very stressful. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Ploughman.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Ploughman responsibilities is difficult.

Flaws: Insomniac, Secretive, Shy. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 200 sp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (110 gp).

Description: She is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her mace, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a card on it. She keeps her long auburn hair kept up in a rat tail. Her eyes are violet and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Joan was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way east. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: Pink pearl (50 gp).

Description: A stocky darker skinned man, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His golden hair is smooth and relatively long. His blue eyes dart from person to person.

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. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Merchant. He's also a talented Barkeep, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Religious. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 500 sp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: A 5'8" eastern woman, she likes to wear grey tank tops with brown skirt. She sports brown long hair. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: Born in the east to a Gardener, Alice learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Shy, Fearful, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. He has wavy auburn hair. His eyes are blue.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: He was born at the edge of vast island. Ostracized due to the martial powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dwarves became a terror of the countryside. He was granted martial powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and he is content

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 80 pp.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. She wears long strands of jet and short yellow dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her golden hair is smooth and relatively long. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She bought a bow and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

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

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Slave, Nature. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 5000 cp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He is portly but not overly obese. He has a very tight haircut. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: Sindri was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting, Professionalism, Persistence. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 400 gp. Carnelian (30 gp). Red-brown spinel (40 gp). 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Masterwork Heavy steel shield. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This southern man is abnormally tall. He dresses like a well dressed Cook does. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His fur is beige and curly. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. 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: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. Spring liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He became a Cook soon after.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 4 Smokesticks.