Description: He wears silk and lounges about seductively. He is portly but not overly obese. His white hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. This blue eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

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 lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and balancing his hectic life and new glassblower responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Nature. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 300 gp. Amber (160 gp).

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She wears an entirely grey suit with violet socks and a vest with buckled shoes. She has wavy red hair. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Stableman born in the past three hundred years. She has all her life been fascinated with writing.

History: Gifted from a young age, Griselda studied abroad. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Stableman. She tends to her Stableman job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job.

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He dresses in blue turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with grey slacks. He carries with him a set of longswords on his belt, each one with a opal on the hilt. His blonde hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His eyes are likewise hazel.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. In his 17th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 800 gp. Red-brown spinel (70 gp). Banded agate (10 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. She wears her auburn hair up. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. A true patriot, Margery would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. Her divine abilities were realized during a raid on her village. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Margery fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Disciplined, Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 500 gp.