Description: This man is very fat, and prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His hair is short and auburn. His gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He was born in a small mountains village. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He tends to his Courier job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Courier responsibilities is difficult; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Job. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Healer’s kit. 1 Superior lock. 1 Average lock.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. His brown hair, when down, is lengthy. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Nicholas was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. 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. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical, Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A 5'1" southern man, he wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with white colored cloaks and clothing. His blonde hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He has green eyes.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Justin was born the youngest of three triplets. In his 18th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father 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 since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Passionate, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Hedonist, Fearful. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: Obsidian (8 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: The light-skinned man stands 6'4" and wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with tan lining and desert motifs. He wears a top hat to hide his balding. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Animal Trainer. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Alexandre grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Alexandre. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 8000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He wears a black tunic with blue highlights, and long tan pants that bunch up around his shoes. His golden hair has been sun bleached extensively. This brown eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: Born in the north to a Knight, Gerald learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Knight for the past few years.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Justice, Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 2600 sp.