Description: He is in excellent shape and is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Painter. His tied-back hair is blonde. His brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving He has all his life been fascinated with poetry.

History: Gerard was born in the east. At a young age he loved to build and create. 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 was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Joker, Artistic, Persistence. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 200 gp. Bloodstone (40 gp). Jade (40 gp).

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His auburn hair is matted, messy, and big. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He uses divination through singing.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. After coming to the age of reason, Kody took it upon himself to study the martial arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and balancing his hectic life and new merchant responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His moppish white hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the forest to a summer home near a ruined castle. He would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the forest due to the painful memories there. Gunter took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up sai and armor he uses now. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Fighting, Passionate, Impeccable, Persistence. Bonds: Nature, In love. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 200 gp. Alexandrite (1200 gp).

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a tan vest and prefers brown and yellow shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down, and is pretty ugly. He has dyed his greying chestnut hair a little too much giving a sharp chestnut color. This gray eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. Diggory was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Diggory decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 13000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He is wearing a long, yellow, dusty cloak. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: He was born in the east, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Persistence, Entrepeneur, Optimist. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: Citrine (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item.