Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. He is bald on top and has large blonde tufts of hair around his ears. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: Ivellios was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: 5'8" and muscular, this western man wears a worn and beaten armor. He has white hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He can't help but pocket interesting objects he comes across

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. Iados was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Iados decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help.

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 1300 gp.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Dyer. His golden hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Born in the north to a Dyer, Broce learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. Because his mother participated in the massacre of their homeland, gnolls burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. He was preparing to flee to the north, but the outbreak of war prevented him and his father from journeying north to reunite his family. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Butcher again; and he loathes his own lifestyle

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 5000 cp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (400 gp).

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His brown hair is braided into rings. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep hazel.

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. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

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. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A middle-aged man, he is well dressed, constantly wearing a grey suit, white shirt, and green tie, and is pretty ugly. His orange fur is greasy and uncared for. His amber eyes peer out from beneath his feathered grey hat.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Tabaxi conditions. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Tabaxi people; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Racist. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 110 gp.