Description: He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His hair is chestnut and curly. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. A gifted student he started as a Butcher, but he got bored and became a Spice Merchant. He became a Spice Merchant soon after.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Passionate, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 500 gp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He stands about 6'0" and is typically in his Bookbinder uniform. His left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady blue eyes.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a pot bellied western man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He is renowned for his bright black suits and hats. He wears his auburn hair up in a very large beehive style do. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Athletic, Joker, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 2000 cp. Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). 1 Everburning torch. 2 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He prefers to wear flannel. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: He was born in the east. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Mayor. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: He wants to get laid; and he loathes his own lifestyle

Flaws: Insane, Depressed. Bonds: Immigrant, Has a crush, Attractive. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 2400 sp.

Description: He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He carries with him a set of tridents on his belt, each one with a amethyst on the hilt. He wears a colorful flower in his chestnut hair. His brown eyes peer out from beneath his feathered red hat.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the west. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Manfred fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and expand his business

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 200 gp. 7 Acid flasks. 3 Antitoxin.