Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing grey cape and mantle trimmed with soft black waves gently in the breeze. His tied-back hair is blonde. His gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. 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 blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He is greedy; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Disciplined, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease, Addict. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 2500 sp.

Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and wears suspenders and red workpants. His shirt is green, and he wears a heavy red leather apron most of the time. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He has dyed his greying blonde hair a little too much giving a sharp blonde color. This gray eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He does not care much for physical appearances, nor does he care much for other people. He does however care about what he wants and getting it. He takes great joy in being the best Priest in town.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Richard was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. 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 has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Job, Mentor. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 18000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a brown cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. His red hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Geoffrey was born with his father's beautiful face. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and to unite with his sister

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Family. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He wears a feathered hat to hide his balding. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. 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: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Professionalism, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Cynical. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 14000 cp.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Human, and stands approximately 5'8". He wears tattered old clothes, and his gloved hand is found clutching a falchion. He has wavy blonde hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: He was born in the east, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 north. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and regain custody of his daughter

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 300 gp.