Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His golden hair is greasy and uncared for. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and money/treasure

Ideals: Philantrophist, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 100 gp. Azurite (16 gp). Alexandrite (300 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His hair is short and white. His blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. In his 20th 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 has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 900 gp. Aquamarine (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He likes to wear violet tank tops with brown pants. His brown hair, when down, is lengthy. His brown eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. 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 the only child of a wealthy merchant. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. Some 3 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Alexandre never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: Human compassion; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Rich, In love. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 700 gp. Lapis lazuli (4 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). Zircon (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a husky man, who wears a pastel shirt, with a tan mid length shorts with tan tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. He keeps his long black hair kept up in a rat tail. He has a dull look in his blue eyes.

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 a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Humans.

History: He was born in the west. Aldous abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. 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: He is greedy; and he desires power and/or immortality

Flaws: Emotional, Racist. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, he wears a grey coat over a brown low-cut shirt, and a top hat upon his head. His brown hair, when down, is lengthy. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: Born in the west to a Architect, Balimaar learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Many gnolls want him driven away; and a deep hatred of gnolls

Bonds: Enemies, Attractive, Job, Rich. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 600 gp. Violet garnet (200 gp).