Description: He very much looks the part of a Cook. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly kukris and hammers. His black hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a Stetson hat. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Theodoric grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Theodoric. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Cook

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 100 gp. Black pearl (1200 gp). Blue sapphire (1000 gp). Moss agate (7 gp). Violet garnet (1200 gp).

Description: She is in excellent shape and wears bulky red painted plate armor. She has a long auburn ponytail with little hanging trinkets. She has hazel eyes.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. She took after her mother in leading caravans. Because they were valued, her mother taught her to defend herself. When her mother died while fighting orcs, the young Elysande began to lead the lost caravan. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by orcs. Elysande was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the orcs.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur, Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 30000 cp.

Description: This eastern man wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His clothes are grease stained in places. His golden hair is knotted and matted. He has gray eyes.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Heward lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Heward was born on a far eastern mountains where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Cook. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Soapmaker they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Cook, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and to reunite with his absent mother

Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She tends to wear a brown poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her white hair is matted, messy, and big. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She does not care much for physical appearances, nor does she care much for other people. She does however care about what she wants and getting it. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: Sybil was raised in a hard working conservative environment. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and to be a blacksmith again

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Nature. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 400 gp. Moss agate (4 gp). Aquamarine (1500 gp). Black pearl (1500 gp). Black pearl (1500 gp).