Description: A 5'5" western man, he is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy brown hair. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his gray eyes.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this western guy figured out how to best use his charms to convince people to do what he wants. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. Ralf liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 400 gp. 4 Thunderstones. 4 Thunderstones. 3 Antitoxin. 4 Thunderstones.

Description: This eastern man wears professional attire. His clothes are grease stained in places. His chestnut hair, when down, is lengthy. His fierce brown eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. Ralf is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Ralf was born with his father's beautiful face. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Humans in the east were limited. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather, and carries flails. He has silver hair. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep amber.

Personality: He is mildly Human supremacist, though he does not identify as such. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Tailor arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Manfred fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Racist, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Banded mail. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his hammer with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. He has wavy black hair. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing dancing.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered dancing. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Human artifacts is his passion; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Guardian, Adventurer. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 100 gp. Solid gold idol (500 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (800 gp).

Description: He is a husky man, who wears a green tunic with brown highlights, and long red pants that bunch up around his shoes. His golden hair is lengthy. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is a Hunter first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and balancing his hectic life and new hunter responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Military, Religious, Adventurer. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 400 gp. Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Hematite (16 gp).