Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears a tight fitting violet shirt and pants. His brown hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a rose scrunchie. He has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: Born in the north to a Architect, Bertram learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Job, Mentor. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 60 pp. Golden yellow topaz (700 gp). Malachite (5 gp).

Description: He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His hair is long and blonde with streaks of auburn, and is pulled back with small green clips. His beard is auburn, braided, and well cared for. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Justin hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his poetry career. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Shipwright. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats; and he would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Has a crush, Enemies. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with pastel lining and desert motifs. His hair is short and silver. His skin is flawless and his brown eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He hates orcs. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He disdains his fellow easterners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Performer. He has worked as a Performer like his mother before him.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His brown hair is smooth and relatively long. He has a dull look in his violet eyes.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: He comes from a rich western family. A serious injury left his father unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm father. 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: Many goblins want him driven away; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Rich, Debt, Enemies. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 1900 sp. 1 Masterwork Artisan’s tools.

Description: The light-skinned man stands 6'6" and is dressed in a clean green cloak covering his clean studded leather. He keeps his white hair in a flapper bob. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are gray.

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 also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Herbalist arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, he put together a working one.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich, Family. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 12000 cp.