Description: This fat northern man has a bulbous nose and typically wears white cloth garments or leather armor. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His silver hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 40 pp. Pink pearl (140 gp). Obsidian (4 gp). Golden pearl (140 gp). Rock crystal (40 gp). Moss agate (4 gp).

Description: He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination, and he perpetually has his warhammer ready. His blonde hair and beard is wavy and long. His eyes are a pleasant amber.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Halimath fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others.

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Slave, Nature. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 2000 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with green lining and desert motifs. His hair is silver and curly. His eyes are amber and beady.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: He was born in the west. Hadarai was born on a far western desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Bather. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 2000 gp. Pink pearl (90 gp). Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). Sardonyx (70 gp).

Description: This man wears a white armored body suit, with a simple black line shooting up and back down. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. He wears his red hair down. His eyes are blue and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Family, Slave, Job. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a tan tunic with grey highlights, and long tan pants that bunch up around his shoes. He has a very tight haircut. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

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 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: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Traki has worked very hard to control his curse. During his travels, Traki and his party rested in a cavern that was (unknown to them) infused with powerful dark magic. Upon awakening, Traki discovered the rest of his party dead, transformed into horrible, mindless undead versions of their former selves. Traki fled the cavern, stopping for breath at a small pool, and only then realizing his own horrible transformation.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Persistence, Logical, Athletic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 3000 gp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1700 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1300 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1800 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1700 gp). Gold music box (3000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.