Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He very much looks the part of a Brewer. He sports a long auburn beard, and similarly colored long hair. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady amber eyes.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Manfred has worked very hard to control his curse. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with Stetson hat. He is an epitome of beauty. He wears a Stetson hat to cover his moderate length silver hair. His blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Body Guard. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Kyle lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Kyle was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family, Military. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 2100 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears dark leathers with embroidery. His long red crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He is a great chef.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Bidreked was born on a far southern desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Bounty Hunter. He tends to his Bounty Hunter job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He wants revenge against orcs; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 1100 sp.

Description: This late middle aged man wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with wide-brimmed hat and is in decent physical shape. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide his balding. His blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He has all his life been fascinated with poetry.

History: Alberich was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. 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 west; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Artistic, Persistence, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease, Cynical. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 400 sp. Cloth of gold vestments (100 gp).

Description: This man is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He wears his chestnut hair down. His violet eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Opinionated, Fighting. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 1700 sp.