Description: A stocky lighter skinned man, he prefers to wear flannel. His hair is long and chestnut with streaks of blonde, and is pulled back with small green clips. His beard is blonde, braided, and well cared for. His amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Bertram is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Bertram was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Bertram 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. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Pacifist, Justice. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 100 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He prefers to wear flannel. He has shaved his head bald. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He disdains his fellow northerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. 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 Soapmaker. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Soapmaker for the past few years.

Motivation: He's attracted to the PC; and expand his business

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 700 gp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1300 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (60 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1300 gp).

Description: He is a husky man, who wears a yellow collared shirt and white pants. He accessorizes with a grey scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His chestnut hair is heavily combed to the left. He has gray eyes.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: He is a Yochlol in disguise. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He has dedicated himself to building a better kind of golem.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and money/treasure

Ideals: Justice, Fighting. Bonds: Religious, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 5000 sp. Violet garnet (600 gp). Freshwater pearl (8 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized brown coat. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his quarterstaff, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a card on it. With bright black hair and a scraggly beard. He has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. After a long history of fighting, Roger and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and doesn't want to be a shepherd and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: Iolite (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a pastel shirt, with a blue mid length shorts with blue tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. He carries a battered hammer and tarnished mace as well. His white hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

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. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 800 gp.