Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He wears his auburn hair up. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Engraver born in the past three hundred years. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Engraver but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: Chad was born with his father's beautiful face. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Performer again; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Athletic, Pacifist. Bonds: Rich, Job, Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 23000 cp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a pastel shirt with thin white vertical stripes and pastel pants. His hair is auburn and very short. His eyes are a pleasant blue.

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 has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Balimaar fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Persistence, Fighting. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: With tan face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a grey cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings. He wears a colorful flower in his white hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He is a Doppelganger in disguise. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is his passion

Flaws: Insomniac, Terse, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 50 pp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His red hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. Because his father participated in the massacre of their homeland, dire rats burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. He was preparing to flee to the south, but the outbreak of war prevented him and his mother from journeying south to reunite his family. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Performer. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats; and he's in love

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Has a crush, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 300 gp. Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Iolite (80 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Obsidian (14 gp).

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 5'10" and is wearing a long, yellow cloak. He has red hair. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Server. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Through the years after Ralf was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Ralf's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Server

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 1500 sp. 1 Darkwood Buckler. 1 Breastplate.