Description: He is lean but muscular and wears tattered old clothes. His brown hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

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. Ostracized due to the martial powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Humans became a terror of the countryside. He was granted martial powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Philantrophist, Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat. His chestnut hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: Balimaar was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Carpenter. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Carpenter.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes.

Ideals: Impeccable, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears professional attire. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His golden hair is heavily combed to the left. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Trey was born with his father's beautiful face. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Performer. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 48000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He dresses in white turtlenecks beneath a yellow coat with violet slacks. He carries with him a set of shields on his belt, each one with a topaz on the hilt. His golden hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are gray.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He has all his life been fascinated with dancing.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. Now he works as a dancing tutor during his time off.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted, Artistic, Logical. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: A 5'11" southern man, he wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His head has been shaved. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is a Ruler first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He is obsessed with his god.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. In his 16th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 3000 sp.