Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His red hair is cut short. He has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Raymond was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Family, Job, Slave. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat. He keeps his chestnut hair in a flapper bob. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Drogo was born into a poor family. Growing up, he dreamt of becoming a Fighter, to bring honor to his family’s name. When he came of age, he applied for a position with his town's local guard, looking to work his way up via merit and eventually become a Fighter in service of a powerful lord somewhere. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Disease, Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: Golden yellow topaz (500 gp). Chrysoprase (80 gp).

Description: He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He is portly but not overly obese. He sports a long blonde beard, and similarly colored long hair. His eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Shane abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Ideals: Opinionated, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: Jasper (60 gp). Hematite (15 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with blue lining and desert motifs. His hair is short and red. His eyes are likewise amber.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. Reynard is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. 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 west. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Adventurer and was forced into it by his family; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Family, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 900 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man stands a little under 5'2" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has a long silver beard with little hanging trinkets. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. Conrad was born on a far southern island where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Spice Merchant. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Conrad fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Extrovert, Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 3000 sp.