Description: This tall, slender man tends to wear a large brown jacket. He has done his best to style his blonde hair to look like a famous performer. His green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: Born in the east to a Mason, Ortegar learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and expand his business

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Job, Slave, Family. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. His golden hair is heavily combed to the left. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Nordak is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Dwarven artifacts is his passion; and to settle down with his crush

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 9000 cp. Blue quartz (14 gp). Onyx (70 gp). Deep green spinel (100 gp).

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His head has been shaved. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. 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: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He married young, but lost his spouse to dire rats. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Revenge; and he loathes his own lifestyle

Ideals: Passionate, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears just a brown suit. His brass crest is still thick. His red eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. 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: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his mother. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Knight and was forced into it by his family; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 25000 sp. Jeweled gold crown (7000 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1200 gp).

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His cinnamon fur is matted, messy, and big. His blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature quarterstaff.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Server

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 100 gp. 3 Thunderstones. 2 Smokesticks. 4 Alchemist’s fire.