Description: He sports tan clothing, slightly heavier than average wear, and he perpetually has his sickle ready. His hair is long and golden with streaks of brown, and is pulled back with small tan clips. His beard is brown, braided, and well cared for. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing writing.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Half-Orcs in Karash's homeland. Karash decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 200 gp. Coral (40 gp).

Description: This tall, slender man wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His moppish golden hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He has a dull look in his brown eyes.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Chay embodies much of what other species detest in the Halflings. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Halfling compassion; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease, Racist. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 600 gp. Fiery yellow corundum (1000 gp). Silver pearl (140 gp). Alexandrite (300 gp).

Description: He is a pot bellied southern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He dresses in green turtlenecks beneath a black coat with tan slacks. His brown hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

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

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 5000 sp.

Description: He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. He has moderate length silver hair. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady brown eyes.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Map Maker born in the past three hundred years. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: Born in the east his family was never financially stable. While he appears to be a normal Human, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He tends to his Map Maker job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Job, Family, Poor. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 800 gp. Black pearl (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His red hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

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. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. His mother was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Persistence, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 300 gp. Rhodochrosite (8 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.