Description: 4'10" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with Stetson hat. His red hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a cross scrunchie. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. Nim 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. Nim 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 used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and seeks redemption

Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 4000 sp.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears long strands of opal and short white dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His eyes are green and catlike.

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 would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he is greedy

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he is well dressed, constantly wearing a red suit, grey shirt, and green tie. He has no hair. His hazel eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Through the years after Hadarai was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Hadarai's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and he's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Military. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 800 gp. Deep blue spinel (1100 gp).

Description: 5'2" and muscular, this southern man does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His chestnut hair is unkempt and raggedy. His hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Aelar has worked very hard to control his curse. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 3000 gp. Freshwater pearl (13 gp). Black pearl (1000 gp). Jet (150 gp). Amethyst (150 gp). Blue quartz (13 gp). Alexandrite (1000 gp). Blue sapphire (700 gp).

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a brown vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His green leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his brown boots flare out at the collars. He has a golden handlebar mustache and slicked back golden hair. His violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. One day when Heian was young, his mother was sewing while trying to overcome the flu, when suddenly his mother dropped to the ground dead. His mother had died from a severe disease that was unknown to the village doctor. Heian was heart-stricken from the event, and his father started working long hours to provde for them. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and regain custody of his son

Flaws: Disease, Addict, PTSD. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 70 pp. Deep blue spinel (1600 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp). Red garnet (40 gp). Obsidian (12 gp). Lapis lazuli (12 gp). Red spinel (40 gp). Peridot (60 gp). Rhodochrosite (12 gp).