Description: He is a husky man, who wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with green lining and desert motifs. He has shaved his head bald. His blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with painting. He constantly tries to fill his life with painting. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: Bertram was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He worked as a nervous Baker and found it very stressful. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and he desires to right it; and to be a bounty hunter again

Ideals: Artistic, Optimist. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 12000 cp. Brown-green garnet (150 gp). Freshwater pearl (15 gp). Blue quartz (15 gp).

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He keeps his silver hair in a flapper bob. He has a dull look in his brown eyes.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality.

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 2500 sp. Amber (150 gp). Banded agate (4 gp). Hematite (4 gp).

Description: A middle-aged man, he dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head, and is pretty ugly. He has no hair. He has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Ralf was raised in a hard working conservative environment. 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 eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Mercenary and was forced into it by his family; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Guardian, Job, Family. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (30 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (30 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (160 gp). 1 Masterwork Thieves’ tools. 1 Average lock. 1 Spyglass.

Description: He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull brown iron scale mail. He has dyed his greying blonde hair a little too much giving a sharp blonde color. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Before the accident, he was one of the most outspoken anti-Human activists. He was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Human doctor. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He wants to get laid; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Crowbar.

Description: He tends to wear a large grey jacket. He has a golden handlebar mustache and slicked back golden hair. His eyes are likewise hazel.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Sage born in the past three hundred years. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and a strong sense of loyalty to human people

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Job, Rich, Family. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 200 gp.