Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he likes to wear grey tank tops with white pants. Sporting a red mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He has all his life been fascinated with painting.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He was taken from his home at a very young age. 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: His religion dominates his actions; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Religious, Rich, Slave, Criminal record. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: Sard (50 gp).

Description: Standing 6'5", this man is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His hair is long and white with streaks of brown, and is pulled back with small blue clips. His beard is brown, braided, and well cared for. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He refers to his adoptive mother 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: Arnold was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 south. Some 3 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Arnold never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and wants to raise his children well

Bonds: Job, Family, In love. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: A 6'3" eastern man, he wears a worn and beaten armor. His white hair is singed and shortened. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Anselm was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Anselm abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Adventurer, Mentor. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This tall, slender man is dressed in an above average manner. He has dyed his greying red hair a little too much giving a sharp red color. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing poetry.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. His parents enrolled him in a Fighter school at a young age so that he could practice his arcane talents. He was granted arcane powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 100 gp. Smoky quartz (20 gp). Chalcedony (20 gp). Obsidian (10 gp). Amber (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright violet and yellow, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His chestnut hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a cross scrunchie. His eyes are hazel and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. In his 12th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother 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 set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he's looking for his big break

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Job, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 200 gp.