Description: This northern man wears just a violet suit. His clothes are grease stained in places. His blue crest is smooth and relatively long. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. Quarethon 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. Quarethon 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 left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 900 pp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2400 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (160 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (1000 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (80 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (900 gp). Gold music box (4000 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (160 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (700 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He stands about 3'2" and wears a worn and beaten armor. His right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. He wears his auburn hair down. His eyes are violet.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Osco grew up listening to his mother's many stories. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He's also a talented Herbalist, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: He is greedy; and money/treasure

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Rich. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 1000 gp. Lapis lazuli (10 gp). Black pearl (200 gp). Carnelian (30 gp).

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a beer of some kind. He wears a white coat over a blue low-cut shirt, and a wide-brimmed hat upon his head, marred by beers. His auburn hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Patrick was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and he made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 500 gp. Black star sapphire (600 gp). White opal (600 gp). Blue star sapphire (600 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His blue crest is drawn into a tight pony tail with a rose scrunchie. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep red.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: He was born in a small forest village. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Nature, Religious. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 14000 gp. Sard (30 gp). Azurite (16 gp). White opal (700 gp). Freshwater pearl (16 gp). Lapis lazuli (16 gp). Blue quartz (16 gp). Malachite (16 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: With grey face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. His hair is chestnut and curly. His black eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: Born in the north to a Mayor, Zephan learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He wants revenge against dire rats; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Job, In love. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 500 gp. Amethyst (110 gp). Pink pearl (110 gp). Citrine (80 gp). Amethyst (110 gp).