Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He sports a flattop hair cut. His face is scarred and worn.

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 also has developed a complete distrust of the Spice Merchant profession.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Shipwright work with an outfit from a few towns over. Shipwright work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Shipwright responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy golden stubble. He wears a simple yellow robe with grey stripes complete with hood. He has a hunchback. He wears his golden hair down. He has a dull look in his violet eyes.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: Shane was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered music. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Persistence, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Selfish. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right hand, she is wearing a long, violet, dusty cloak. She has golden hair. Her eyes are gray.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. She refers to her adoptive mother 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: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and revenge

Ideals: Pacifist. Bonds: Family, Rich, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 8000 cp. Bloodstone (20 gp). Chalcedony (20 gp). Eye agate (9 gp). 3 Acid flasks. 3 Smokesticks.

Description: He prefers to wear red clothing when he does not wear armor. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He wears a broad hat to cover his moderate length white hair. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He is a great chef.

History: Born in the south to a Mortician, Faran learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. A freak accident while working with his Mercenary father left him crippled. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Mortician responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 60 gp. Tourmaline (50 gp).

Description: He is in excellent shape and is renowned for his bright brown suits and hats. His white hair is braided into rings. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: He considers himself the perfect gentleman. He makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. His arcane abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend.

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 140 gp. A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (70 gp).

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He wears bulky white painted plate armor. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy chestnut hair. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Burto was born the youngest of three triplets. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered music. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and to unite with his sister

Ideals: Opinionated, Artistic. Bonds: Rich, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 2200 sp. Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp). Chalcedony (80 gp). Moss agate (13 gp). 1 Half-Plate. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Banded mail.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears black painted combat armor at almost all times. Her black crest is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She fancies herself a trickster and likes to rely on her wits to carry the day. She cares for her older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Her first spouse was a Marshal, they had one son, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Chassath fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and doesn't want to be a butcher and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insomniac, Disease. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: He wears professional attire. His moppish blonde hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Calcitro will drive conversation. 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: Calcitro was born with his mother's beautiful face. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Barber hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Extrovert. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Family. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat. She carries with her a set of shields on her belt, each one with a jet on the hilt. Her silver crest is still thick. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: She was born in the west. Aasathra was born on a far western plains where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Bellfounder. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Aasathra fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To protect her home; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Bonds: Guardian, Immigrant. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 700 sp. Red garnet (80 gp).