Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears green painted combat armor at almost all times. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady violet eyes.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his father. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire.

Flaws: Ugly, Emotional. Bonds: Has a crush, Immigrant. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 700 gp. Alexandrite (1500 gp). Violet garnet (1500 gp). Banded agate (13 gp). Red-brown spinel (150 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He stands about 6'6" and wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. His right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His red hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever he goes.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs.

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He wears light armors faded through time and improper care. His chestnut hair is thinning but still full. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Mantus is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

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

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a pot bellied western man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft pastel waves gently in the breeze. His moppish silver hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His eyes are likewise green.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Darrow lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way east. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (600 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Jeweled anklet (3000 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (600 gp).