Description: 5'10" and muscular, this northern man wears black painted combat armor at almost all times. His hair is cut close to his head. His eyes are gray.

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 obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He found a children's book about a Half-Orc Commoner 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 became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Bonds: Adventurer, Slave. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 400 gp. Golden yellow topaz (900 gp). Golden yellow topaz (900 gp).

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He is dressed in a clean grey cloak covering his clean studded leather. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. 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 daughter.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and to be a mortician again

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Job, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized blue coat. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his hand crossbow, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a butterfly on it. He keeps his long red hair kept up in a rat tail. His eyes are a pleasant white.

Personality: Merihim is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. 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: Born to a Herbalist, his mother struggled to pay the bills. Being born in the north, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the north for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by giants. Merihim was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the giants.

Motivation: Revenge; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Extrovert. Bonds: Family, Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 1000 gp. Chrysoberyl (140 gp). Black pearl (200 gp). Obsidian (8 gp). Blue quartz (8 gp). Rhodochrosite (8 gp). White opal (1600 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky man does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His scarlet crest is heavily combed to the right. His eyes are gold and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he's looking for his big break

Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant, Religious, Rich. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 300 gp. Brown-green garnet (50 gp). Carnelian (20 gp). Malachite (13 gp).

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He prefers to wear grey clothing when he does not wear armor. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His hair is golden and very short. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are amber.

Personality: He is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. He also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. He uses divination through singing.

History: He got into the Architect business at a young age. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable.

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Slave, Attractive, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 7000 cp. Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp).