Description: This tall, slender man is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His fur is beige and very short. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. A true patriot, Beast would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the north. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered dancing. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic, Impeccable. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His head has been shaved. He has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Mercenary. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. Ralf was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Ralf decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. 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; and expand his business

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Nature, Slave. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 200 sp. Cloth of gold vestments (90 gp). 2 Holy water.

Description: This man wears silk and lounges about seductively, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His brown hair is lengthy. His green eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is a Performer first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Performer arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Performer responsibilities is difficult; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a worn and beaten armor. His hair is white, silky, and of moderate length. His skin is flawless and his silver eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Melech hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac.

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: Just what you see.