Description: He is scrawny and has patchy auburn stubble. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He has a hunchback. His auburn hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. His green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Gerard has worked very hard to control his curse. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and he feels threatened by others

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Terse, Fearful, Mundane. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 400 gp. Freshwater pearl (4 gp). Obsidian (4 gp). Red-brown spinel (160 gp). Red-brown spinel (160 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a chocolate of some kind. He is dressed in earthy colors with a grey and tan handkerchief worn on his right side, marred by chocolates. His brown hair is knotted and matted. His brown eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Human culture. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Interpreter arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and money/treasure

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Racist, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 1800 sp. 1 Banded mail. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He wears an entirely black suit with grey socks and a vest with buckled shoes. His red hair and beard is wavy and long. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gray.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: He is a Doppelganger in disguise. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Flaws: Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Guardian, Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: Standing 6'0", this man tends to wear a brown poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He has blonde hair. His brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. A true patriot, Heward would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Heward was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Heward fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Opinionated, Fighting. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Military, Religious. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 20000 cp. 1 Masterwork Musical instrument. 1 Magnifying glass.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he is dressed in a clean green cloak covering his clean studded leather. He has done his best to style his auburn hair to look like a famous performer. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. The war was a terrible time for him, and Conrad does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Conrad was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and he loathes his own lifestyle

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Selfish, Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 800 gp.