Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his falchion with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His blonde hair has been sun bleached extensively. His violet eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

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. 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: A child with a great deal of dancing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He worked as a nervous Beggar and found it very stressful. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Bonds: Family, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 90 pp. Alexandrite (800 gp). Deep green spinel (60 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp).

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a simple pastel robe with brown stripes complete with hood. His tied-back hair is golden. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Chad hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his dancing career. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Born in the south to a Jeweler, Chad learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. In his 12th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He became a Jeweler soon after.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Artistic, Logical. Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears a black vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His red leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his black boots flare out at the collars. His red hair is thinning but still full. This green eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and revenge

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft white waves gently in the breeze. His hair, while still mostly silver, has prominent grey streaks. His green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He's also a talented Butcher, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Military, Job. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: Solid gold idol (400 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (400 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (400 gp). 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Full Plate. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears a worn and beaten armor. He has done his best to style his white hair to look like a famous performer. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Anselm was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. 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. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and to be a shipwright again

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer, Poor. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.