Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized blue coat. His brown hair is lengthy. He has a dull look in his green eyes.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. A gifted student he started as a Barrister, but he got bored and became a Mason. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Bonds: Guardian, Criminal record, Military, Job. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: He wears a tight fitting blue shirt and pants. His blonde hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: A powerful slaver made him what he is. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Dwarven conditions. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and dwarven compassion

Flaws: Insane, Shy, Lazy, Racist. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 1100 sp.

Description: He is a husky man, who is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. He keeps his long rusty crest kept up in a rat tail. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Laborer arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. 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: To find somewhere to settle down; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Impulsive, Mundane. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He wears a brown tunic with grey highlights, and long black pants that bunch up around his shoes, and carries pickaxes. His brown hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His eyes are likewise amber. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. During his travels, Thomas and his party rested in a cavern that was (unknown to them) infused with powerful dark magic. Upon awakening, Thomas discovered the rest of his party dead, transformed into horrible, mindless undead versions of their former selves. Thomas fled the cavern, stopping for breath at a small pool, and only then realizing his own horrible transformation.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Half-Elven artifacts is his passion; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 160 pp. A necklace of small pink pearls (2000 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (80 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This late middle aged man wears baggy white pantaloons and a blue scarf and is in decent physical shape. He keeps his white hair in a flapper bob. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. 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, Traubon is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born in the east, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 130 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.