Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He is typically in his Layabout uniform. His auburn hair is knotted and matted. He has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Born in the south to a Layabout, Bernard learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. He worked as a nervous Layabout and found it very stressful. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

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

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy, Selfish. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 200 gp. Aquamarine (1100 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He wears a grey coat over a violet low-cut shirt, and a top hat upon his head. His hair is long and black with streaks of chestnut, and is pulled back with small grey clips. His beard is chestnut, braided, and well cared for. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Revenge; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: She wears a white vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her tan leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her white boots flare out at the collars. Her auburn hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her gray eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: Gifted from a young age, Jacoba studied abroad. 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. She was granted divine powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 4000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. She tends to wear a tan poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. She has shaved her head bald. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines violet.

Personality: She hates brigands. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Her parents were killed by brigands in a raid when she was still a young child. The brigands captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Slave, Enemies. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: Rich purple corundum (400 gp).