Description: This malnourished man prefers to wear tan pants and tee shirts. His white hair is cut short. His eyes are a pleasant hazel.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: When he was but 4 years old his parents immigrated from the south. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He became a Spice Merchant soon after.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Spice Merchant responsibilities is difficult; and expand his business

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 100 gp. Bloodstone (80 gp).

Description: This western man is abnormally tall. He dresses in black turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with blue slacks. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His hair is short and brown. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. 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: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Theodoric was born on a far western island where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Fisher. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 44000 sp. 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He is dressed in earthy colors with a black and brown handkerchief worn on his left side. His brown hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Norman wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Fighter, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. A serious injury left his father unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm father. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Disciplined, Impeccable. Bonds: Military, Debt, Job. Occupation: Mason

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 3000 sp.

Description: He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His head has been shaved. His eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Born in the east to a Scribe, Chad learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. 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 inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 15 years.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and to be a mason again

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 300 gp. Red spinel (150 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: He is a pot bellied eastern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears suspenders and black workpants. His shirt is brown, and he wears a heavy black leather apron most of the time. With a patchy brown beard and wild brown hair. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines brown.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He has all his life been fascinated with writing.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Through the years after Kody was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Kody's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist, Antagonistic. Occupation: Mason

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

Possessions: 200 gp.