Description: This man is very fat, and is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His chestnut hair is lengthy. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his mother. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature shield.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He wears brown painted combat armor at almost all times. His red hair and beard is wavy and long. He has a dull look in his amber eyes.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Gifted from a young age, Kyle studied abroad. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south.

Ideals: Disciplined, Logical, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 100 sp. 8 Acid flasks.

Description: A middle-aged man, he has a large yellow mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his blue robe, and is pretty ugly. His orange fur is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. 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: He was born on a small isolated farm. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. Being a Architect kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions.

Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 500 gp. 4 Antitoxin. 1 Smokesticks. 1 Smokesticks.

Description: He wears professional attire. He carries with him a set of spears on his belt, each one with a jet on the hilt. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy auburn hair. His blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

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. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

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 found a children's book about a Half-Orc Warrior who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He was granted divine powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he is renowned for his bright violet suits and hats. His blue hair is braided into rings. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are black.

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 served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He worked as a nervous Sage and found it very stressful. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and expand his business

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Military, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 800 gp. Moss agate (8 gp). Citrine (20 gp). Star ruby (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item.