Description: He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His eyes are likewise amber.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He was born into a rich family. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The mother sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his mother's willingness to do anything to win. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter; and he has a crush on the local farmer

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Rich, Job, Criminal record, Family, Has a crush. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 2000 sp. Black pearl (400 gp). Tourmaline (70 gp). Amethyst (70 gp). Red garnet (70 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears a robe, a symbol of strength around his neck, and a lance on his belt. His head has been shaved. His gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. Conrad enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it.

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist, Disease. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 10000 cp.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears tan robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a crossbow, but if one is not available he will default to his dagger. He has dyed his greying chestnut hair a little too much giving a sharp chestnut color. His eyes are likewise green. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He does not care much for physical appearances, nor does he care much for other people. He does however care about what he wants and getting it. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: Born in the east to a Barkeep, Gomory learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. While he appears to be a normal Human, 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 has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Sage again.

Flaws: Ugly, Fearful, Insane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 500 gp. Emerald (700 gp).

Description: Standing 5'1", this man wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His black hair is cut short. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady violet 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. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. Being a Glassblower kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish, Disease. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 100 gp. Red-brown spinel (40 gp).