Description: This man wears rags and sports a simple walking cane, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His hair, while still mostly blonde, has prominent grey streaks. He has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: Alex was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and retire the richest man in the east

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, In love. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 80 pp. Star rose quartz (60 gp). Alexandrite (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is lean but muscular and prefers to wear flannel. His hair is long and red with streaks of golden, and is pulled back with small grey clips. His beard is golden, braided, and well cared for. His eyes are amber and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: He was born in a small island village. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 2000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His golden hair is heavily combed to the right. His amber eyes peer out from beneath his Stetson white hat.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. A friendly and beautiful Human, he is rarely seen without a few beauties around his arms. Though a playboy in all rights, he is no lame duck.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. A gifted student he started as a Bookbinder, but he got bored and became a Baker. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Baker for the past few years.

Motivation: To be a Bookbinder again.

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Job. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 800 gp. Amethyst (60 gp). Obsidian (16 gp). Fire opal (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with yellow lining and desert motifs. His brown hair is cut short. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. On top of that he is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to his employer will always come first he doesn't like to hit women.

History: He was born into a rich family. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and he's looking for his big break

Bonds: Guardian, Has a crush, Adventurer, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears a robe, a symbol of death around his neck, and a nunchaku on his belt. His golden hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He is a great chef.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. In his youth he was a Engraver, and wanted to be a champion fighter when he grew up. He was working during a period of war, and as one of the natives he lived in fear of joining the others in being slaughtered. He saw the brutality and swore off his fighting aspirations, taking his younger sister on his back after seeing his parents die, and fled the country. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Kyle fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Fighting, Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane, PTSD. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: Sardonyx (40 gp). Jasper (40 gp).