Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears a yellow costume with the symbols of death on his torso. He keeps his black hair in a pixie cut. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

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. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His homeland was ravaged by war and he spent much of his life rebuilding it. After a long history of fighting, Nicholas and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Impulsive, PTSD. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (60 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her long red hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Bather born in the past three hundred years. 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. A serious injury left her mother unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm mother. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Interpreter again; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Slave, Debt. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He likes to wear green tank tops with tan pants. His gold crest is smooth and relatively long. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines gold.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. He is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. Torinn was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Torinn decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 260 gp.

Description: This woman stands a little under 3'10" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her halberd with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her chestnut hair is matted, messy, and big. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She takes great joy in being the best Slave Trader in town.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Her father took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 12 years.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and balancing her hectic life and new slave trader responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Nature. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: He wears skinny pants and wears a white and brown robe with the hood down. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy silver hair. His fierce blue eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his father. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He became a Crown-heir soon after.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world.

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Military, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 100 gp. A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (30 gp).

Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a beer of some kind. She very much looks the part of a Roofer, marred by beers. She has dyed her greying brown hair a little too much giving a sharp brown color. She has a dull look in her blue eyes.

Personality: She hates Humans with a passion. As such she is filled with self loathing. She would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: Millicent was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Roofer for the past few years.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Racist, Shy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 6000 cp. Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she likes to wear green tank tops with grey skirt. Her brown hair is braided into rings. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She uses divination through singing.

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. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 270 gp. Red garnet (110 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She is renowned for her bright tan dresses and hats. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. She sports black long hair. She has violet eyes.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

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. A gifted student she started as a Sage, but she got bored and became a Bellfounder. She has since married many spouses, only to have them die. She claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: Revenge; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, In love, Enemies. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: This dark-skinned male typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep white leather and dull yellow iron scale mail. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. He has dyed his greying auburn hair a little too much giving a sharp auburn color. He has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: Bhevek hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his poetry career. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father 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 gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: To be a Baker again.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 11000 cp.