Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He wears white trousers with pastel and brown striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He has a very tight haircut. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and nothing but the best is good enough for him

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 100 pp. White opal (700 gp). Moss agate (15 gp). Red-brown spinel (60 gp). Alexandrite (1300 gp). Amber (60 gp). Black pearl (1300 gp). Deep blue spinel (1300 gp). Sard (50 gp). Bloodstone (50 gp). White pearl (60 gp). Rhodochrosite (15 gp). Freshwater pearl (15 gp). Azurite (15 gp). Chalcedony (50 gp). Jet (60 gp). Lapis lazuli (15 gp).

Description: He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'7" when asserting himself. His auburn hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His eyes are green and catlike.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. 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, Conrad is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Born in the south to a Unemployed, Conrad learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. A gifted student he started as a Carpenter, but he got bored and became a Unemployed. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Depressed, Mundane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 400 gp. Citrine (60 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. His chestnut hair is thinning but still full. His brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Bricklayer arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. In his 13th year, his parents were killed by a orcs raid, leaving Kelter alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He wants revenge against orcs; and halfling compassion

Flaws: Disease, Racist. Bonds: Job, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 10000 cp. Alexandrite (1200 gp). Hematite (8 gp).

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he has a large blue mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his brown robe. His hair is long and white with streaks of golden, and is pulled back with small blue clips. His beard is golden, braided, and well cared for. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Gormogord grew up listening to his father's many stories. Before the accident, he was one of the most outspoken anti-Halfling activists. He was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Halfling doctor. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Flaws: Antagonistic, Racist. Bonds: Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His hair is cut close to his head. He has amber eyes.

Personality: He is mildly Halfling supremacist, though he does not identify as such. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Halflings.

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. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Tod has worked very hard to control his curse. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Tod fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Racist, Insane, Disease. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.