Description: He is a mite stocky and wears an entirely tan suit with brown socks and a vest with buckled shoes. He sports a flattop hair cut. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

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. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his writing with anyone who is interested.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered writing. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Laborer they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Herbalist, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Bonds: Rich, Family, Military. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: This slender man stands about 5'0". He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. His hair is long and chestnut with streaks of blonde, and is pulled back with small black clips. His beard is blonde, braided, and well cared for. His eyes are hazel and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. He has worked as a Cook like his father before him.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Nature. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 400 gp. Jet (40 gp). Red spinel (40 gp). Golden yellow topaz (400 gp).

Description: This man has the majority of his body covered in plate, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His brown hair is thinning but still full. His eyes are brown.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Born in the west to a Server, Lewis learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. He advanced relatively quickly due to his good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Flaws: Shy, Forgetful. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Server

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 500 gp. Carnelian (80 gp). Blue sapphire (1100 gp). Violet garnet (1600 gp).

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing white cape and mantle trimmed with soft green waves gently in the breeze. His golden hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a skull scrunchie. This brown eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. 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: He is greedy; and money/treasure

Ideals: Passionate, Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He wears baggy brown pantaloons and a grey scarf. He carries with him a set of monstrous two handed axes, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide his balding. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. 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 got into the Miller business at a young age. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered west to less war torn lands. He now owns his own business.

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

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Terse, PTSD. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.