Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His hair is silver and very short. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: This man loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. 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: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. While he appears to be a normal Human, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Fisher for hire.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 800 gp. Azurite (15 gp). Alexandrite (1300 gp). Amethyst (140 gp). Violet garnet (1300 gp).

Description: A 5'1" eastern man, he wears pastel trousers with blue and black striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He keeps his long red hair kept up in a rat tail. His eyes are hazel.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: When he was but 3 years old his parents immigrated from the east. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and retire the richest man in the east

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: 6'3" and muscular, this northern man is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. His blonde hair and beard is wavy and long. His green eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Gardener for hire.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Nature, Job. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 80 pp.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears a worn and beaten armor. His silver hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His hazel eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. His childhood dream was to be a Guard, but he was a colossal failure. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Emotional, Forgetful, Disease. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 25000 cp. Jade (40 gp).

Description: An older man who typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep green leather and dull blue iron scale mail, he is not a threatening figure. His long auburn hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. 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: Born to a Carter, his mother struggled to pay the bills. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Religious, Poor, Slave. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 200 gp. Zircon (70 gp). Violet garnet (700 gp). Violet garnet (700 gp).