Description: 5'10" and muscular, this southern man is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: Born to a Bookbinder, his mother struggled to pay the bills. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist. Bonds: Slave, Poor, Family. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Banded mail. 1 Breastplate.

Description: He wears a tight fitting pastel shirt and pants. He carries with him a set of monstrous two handed axes, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. He has moderate length red hair. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Humans.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. 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 routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and human compassion

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Emotional, Racist, Insane. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 36000 sp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He keeps his auburn hair in a flapper bob. His eyes are likewise violet.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Chad was born with his father's beautiful face. At some point he was captured by illithids and was tortured. After several years of this he finally managed to escape. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and expand his business

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp).

Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He has done his best to style his white hair to look like a famous performer. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He does not care much for physical appearances, nor does he care much for other people. He does however care about what he wants and getting it. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. Raymond was born on a far eastern forest where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Bellfounder. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 1100 sp. Citrine (60 gp). Deep green spinel (80 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp).

Description: This man wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His brown hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. He works hard and plays hard.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Tailor. He tends to his Tailor job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He is greedy; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Rich. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 400 gp.