Description: This northern man is abnormally tall. He wears bulky red painted plate armor. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is a Apothecary first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and to be a spice merchant again

Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Job, Slave, In love. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized brown coat. His red hair is long and unkept. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his father. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Humans in Gilbert's homeland. Gilbert decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 200 gp. Jet (70 gp).

Description: A stocky lighter skinned man, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He wears his golden hair up in a very large beehive style do. His eyes are brown and catlike.

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 is a great chef.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Joker, Gifted, Persistence. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: With grey face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy black hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Painter they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Locksmith, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: To unite with his brother; and doesn't want to be a locksmith and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane, Shy. Bonds: Family, Nature. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep pastel leather and dull brown iron scale mail. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His black hair is lengthy. His eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Ostracized due to the martial powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Humans became a terror of the countryside. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, PTSD. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Healer’s kit. 1 Hourglass.