Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Balam was born on a far eastern island where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Cartwright. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He is content.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 90 pp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears tattered old clothes. He keeps his silver crest in a pixie cut. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. After coming to the age of reason, Shamash took it upon himself to study the martial arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Passionate, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: Tourmaline (160 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He is dressed in a clean brown cloak covering his clean studded leather. He has no fur. He has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He is greedy; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Passionate. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 1100 gp. Blue star sapphire (1400 gp). Amber (70 gp). Golden yellow topaz (900 gp). Carnelian (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears dark leathers with embroidery. His hair is golden and curly. His amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Ruler profession.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Logical. Flaws: Secretive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 500 gp. A silver and pearl hairclip (40 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp).