Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty grey coat over it. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He is greedy; and money/treasure

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 270 gp. Jet (160 gp).

Description: He is a mite stocky and is typically in his Merchant uniform. His silver hair is greasy and uncared for. His eyes are likewise brown.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Herbalist profession.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. A gifted student he started as a Herbalist, but he got bored and became a Merchant. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Merchant for the past few years.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and to get a good night's sleep

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 500 sp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: An older man who wears a tight fitting tan shirt and pants, he is not a threatening figure. He has no hair. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with music. He constantly tries to fill his life with music. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: He was raised in a plains tribe. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He wears an entirely green suit with yellow socks and a vest with buckled shoes. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His white hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his father. While he appears to be a normal Elf, 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 moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Slave, Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 1000 gp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1600 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (140 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with brown colored cloaks and clothing. He is physically well-built. With a patchy golden beard and wild golden hair. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

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 keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Gifted from a young age, Gimble studied abroad. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he is greedy

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 40 pp. Solid gold idol (500 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (1000 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (700 gp).