Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and tends to wear a large red jacket. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His white hair has been sun bleached extensively. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing painting.

History: Alex was raised in a hard working conservative environment. After coming to the age of reason, Alex took it upon himself to study the druidic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He's in love; and wants a kiss

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: An older man who wears violet leather gloves, a violet jacket, and tight pants, he is not a threatening figure. His hair is auburn and curly. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. Guy is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Guy was born in the east. At a young age he loved to build and create. He was taken from his home at a very young age. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Family, Slave. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is renowned for his bright blue suits and hats. His golden hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He refers to his adoptive father 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: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Charles has worked very hard to control his curse. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Miller they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Beggar, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Flaws: Depressed, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: Deep blue spinel (500 gp).

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy brown stubble. He wears just a white suit. He has a hunchback. His broad hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. Raymond enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. While he appears to be a normal Human, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world.

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Impulsive, Hedonist. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Breastplate. 1 Breastplate. 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears an entirely grey suit with black socks and a vest with buckled shoes. His head has been shaved. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Gerald hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his painting career. He is an amazing painter.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Ostracized due to the psionic 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 has dedicated himself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend.

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Miner

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 28000 sp. Coral (160 gp). Sard (30 gp). Jasper (30 gp).