Description: He wears a yellow cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His long red hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. 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: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he wants revenge against dire rats

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: In love, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This western man is abnormally tall. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He has moderate length golden hair. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Lance was raised in a hard working conservative environment. 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 Spice Merchant. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and to be a bounty hunter again

Bonds: Immigrant, Guardian, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His silver hair is long and unkept. He has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. His parents enrolled him in a Fighter school at a young age so that he could practice his martial talents. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: 5'11" and muscular, this eastern man wears a fancy brown suit. His hair is white and very short. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep amber.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Kody's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He can't help but pocket interesting objects he comes across

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his greatsword with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His black hair is cut short. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: He was born in the east. Theobald was born on a far eastern forest where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Fletcher. 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: He is terrified, and will act out of fear.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: Deep green spinel (80 gp). Violet garnet (400 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp).