Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears skinny pants and wears a grey and violet robe with the hood down. His chestnut hair has been sun bleached extensively. His eyes are hazel and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: This man loves music and to teach people music more than just about anything. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Anselm is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Anselm 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; and he's in love

Ideals: Artistic, Justice, Fighting. Bonds: Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He has the majority of his body covered in plate. With a patchy golden beard and wild golden hair. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Simon hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his singing career. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: Simon was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Ruler. He became a Ruler soon after.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 30000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears a worn and beaten armor. His tied-back hair is blonde. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Selfish, Insomniac. Bonds: Slave, Job. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This fat western man has a bulbous nose and typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep green leather and dull black iron scale mail. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He sports a long white beard, and similarly colored long hair. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: He comes from a rich western family. 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 is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is his passion

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This northern man is abnormally tall. He wears a white costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on his torso. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His white hair is thinning but still full. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Everard's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Everard was born on a far northern mountains where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Herbalist. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Impeccable, Logical. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 100 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp). Silver pearl (80 gp). Star rose quartz (30 gp).