Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and wears brown painted combat armor at almost all times. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He keeps his chestnut hair in a pixie cut. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep brown.

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

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Impulsive. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 390 gp. Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Iolite (20 gp). Carnelian (20 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 4'7" when asserting herself. Her beige fur is lengthy. Her eyes are amber.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of brigands may trigger it at times.

History: Silent was born in the north. At a young age she loved to build and create. In her 16th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Many brigands want her driven away.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 1000 cp. 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: This northern man is abnormally tall. He dresses like a well dressed Tailor does. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He sports a long white beard, and similarly colored long hair. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are violet.

Personality: He has a good heart but also a terrible temper. He will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Born to a Hunter, his father struggled to pay the bills. Because his father participated in the massacre of their homeland, illithids burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. He was preparing to flee to the north, but the outbreak of war prevented him and his mother from journeying north to reunite his family. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing tan cape and mantle trimmed with soft blue waves gently in the breeze. His chestnut hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His eyes are gray.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: A child with a great deal of singing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Bonds: Rich, Guardian, Attractive. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 1 Everburning torch.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he has a large brown mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his blue robe. He wears a broad hat to hide his balding. His eyes are blue and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. 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: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Carpenter and was forced into it by his family; and to clean up the streets

Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Family, Immigrant, Adventurer, Guardian. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 1400 sp.

Description: She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. Her hair is chestnut and curly. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Eva hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day.

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 340 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This man is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes., and sports empty pouches on his belt. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Before the accident, he was one of the most outspoken anti-Dwarven activists. He was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Dwarven doctor. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 2800 sp. Black pearl (600 gp). White pearl (40 gp).

Description: She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep red leather and dull brown iron scale mail. She is portly but not overly obese. She wears a top hat to hide her balding. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady amber eyes.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. A serious injury left her father unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm father. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Religious, Mentor, Debt. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 1100 sp. 1 Breastplate.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Dwarf, and stands approximately 4'2". He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright brown and pastel, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems, and his gloved hand is found clutching a monstrous two handed axe. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. A gifted student he started as a Butcher, but he got bored and became a Shoemaker. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Shoemaker responsibilities is difficult; and an old rival family wants him found

Flaws: Antagonistic, Addict. Bonds: Rich, Military, Job, Family. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 200 gp.