Description: He is a mite stocky and does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He has no hair. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

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 will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Performer they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Jeweler, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Has a crush, Religious, Family. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 1500 sp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears a violet vest and prefers yellow and black shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. She wears a deerstalker hat to hide her balding. Her eyes are likewise hazel. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. In her 12th 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. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful, Disease. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 190 gp.

Description: Her right side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She is wearing a long, black cloak. Her crest is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her red eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is witty, but her monotone delivery comes off as unnerving She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Kava was raised in a hard working conservative environment. In her 15th year, her parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Kava alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Joker, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 80 gp. Jet (80 gp).

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears a robe, a symbol of death around her neck, and a quarterstaff on her belt. Her gray fur is still thick. She has hazel eyes and a brown hat with a tan feather.

Personality: Gale is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Fighting, Extrovert, Professionalism, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: 3'8" and muscular, this southern man is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His hair is blonde and very short. His green eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. On top of that he is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to his employer will always come first he doesn't like to hit women.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Paggen grew up listening to his mother's many stories. 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. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His hair is long and golden with streaks of brown, and is pulled back with small tan clips. His beard is brown, braided, and well cared for. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

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. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While he appears to be a normal Elf, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Disciplined, Professionalism, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 8000 cp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: 5'8" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She wears an entirely brown suit with tan socks and a vest with buckled shoes. With bright red hair. Her half smiles and green eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She takes great joy in being the best Guard in town.

History: Born in the west to a Guard, Sarah learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Guard for the past few years.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and expand her business

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Slave. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 3000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A stocky darker skinned woman, she wears dark leathers with embroidery. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide her balding. Her hazel eyes peer out from beneath her wide-brimmed tan hat.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Mortician business.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She's also a talented Masseuse, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Nature, Job, Slave. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This southern man is abnormally tall. He wears skinny pants and wears a tan and grey robe with the hood down. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He has no hair. His hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: The child of a Barkeep, who enjoyed hunting, Gerbo was taken on many hunting expeditions. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the mountains to a summer home near a ruined castle. He would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the mountains due to the painful memories there. Gerbo took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up nunchaku and armor he uses now. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he seems to be bored by most things

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 20 pp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (700 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp).