Description: This tall, slender man wears a tight fitting green shirt and pants. His long red hair reaches down to his waist. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Gifted from a young age, Dean studied abroad. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Sellsword. Some 10 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Dean never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, In love. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright white and pastel, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: This man loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: He was born in the west. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Tanner. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 2000 sp.

Description: This tall, slender man wears a blue cloak and cross-gartered tan stockings. He sports a long silver beard, and similarly colored long hair. His amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Robert is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Depressed, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a robe, a symbol of magic around his neck, and a monstrous two handed axe on his belt. His hair is long and red with streaks of brown, and is pulled back with small brown clips. His beard is brown, braided, and well cared for. His eyes are a pleasant brown.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. Gilbert liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Adventurer, Nature, Job, In love. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: He wears long strands of jet and short green dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. He wears his silver hair up. His green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Pacifist, Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.