Description: He dresses in blue turtlenecks beneath a red coat with black slacks. He is portly but not overly obese. His beige fur is greasy and uncared for. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines copper.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Tricking hails from a village terrorized by brigands. In his 11th year, his parents were killed by a brigands raid, leaving Tricking alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to brigands demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Hedonist. Bonds: Enemies, Family. Occupation: Courier

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 3000 cp. Red-brown spinel (140 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: He wears professional attire. He carries with him a set of tridents on his belt, each one with a opal on the hilt. He sports a flattop fur cut. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. 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. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 60 pp. Tourmaline (80 gp). Deep green spinel (80 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp).

Description: He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He is portly but not overly obese. His hair is always cut to a buzz. He has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. A true patriot, Gimble would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform Some 5 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Gimble never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Military, Slave, In love. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He wears green painted combat armor at almost all times. He carries with him a set of scimitars, each one with a topaz on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. He has a blonde handlebar mustache and slicked back blonde hair. His ears are large.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Painter. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Painter responsibilities is difficult; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Musical instrument.

Description: This man is dressed in an above average manner, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He has a white handlebar mustache and slicked back white hair. His blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: He got into the Adventurer business at a young age. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Half-Elven companion (his 'brother'). He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and obtaining odd cultural half-elven artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 4000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.