Description: This man prefers to wear white pants and tee shirts. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His hair is long and red with streaks of silver, and is pulled back with small white clips. His beard is silver, braided, and well cared for. He has a dull look in his amber eyes.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Peter was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Military. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 6000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright red and white, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems, and carries greatswords. He has done his best to style his silver hair to look like a famous performer. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines amber.

Personality: He is a Bookbinder first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: The child of a Unemployed, who enjoyed hunting, Thomas was taken on many hunting expeditions. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He struck the Bookbinder job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Bookbinder responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job, Nature. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 200 gp. Blue quartz (9 gp). Black star sapphire (900 gp). Red-brown spinel (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged man typically wears violet cloth garments or leather armor, and a wedding ring on his left hand. He wears a small hat to hide his balding. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Thomas grew up listening to his mother's many stories. His mother worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled mother and took his mother's old job. Some 3 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Thomas never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: In love, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 2700 sp. Hematite (9 gp). Rhodochrosite (9 gp). Hematite (9 gp).

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He sports a flattop hair cut. His half smiles and amber eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. Being born in the south, 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 south 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 east. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Bonds: Slave, Attractive, Adventurer, Nature, Family. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 10000 sp. Sard (50 gp). Hematite (7 gp).

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy white stubble. He wears tattered old clothes. He has a hunchback. His white hair is thinning but still full. His eyes are hazel.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. 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 arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the desert to a summer home near a old dungeon. He would wander through that old dungeon and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the desert due to the painful memories there. Miles took refuge in the old dungeon and found the beat up bastard sword and armor he uses now. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Pacifist, Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 400 sp.