Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears baggy tan pantaloons and a grey scarf. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His half smiles and gray eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Halimath lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Sensitive, PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 9000 gp. 1 Major magic item.

Description: He wears dark leathers with embroidery, and he perpetually has his quarterstaff ready. He wears his chestnut hair down. This brown eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: He was born at the edge of vast plains. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Laucian fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted, Persistence. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: He wears a black cloak and cross-gartered red stockings. His black hair has been sun bleached extensively. His eyes are likewise violet.

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 terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Elven people; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Forgetful, Mundane, Racist. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 5000 gp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (90 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears a simple tan robe with green stripes complete with hood. He wears a colorful flower in his golden hair. His gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

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 tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Galinndan hails from a village terrorized by brigands. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 150 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right hand, he wears a worn and beaten armor. His black hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when giants swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. In his 17th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by giants. Suhnae was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the giants.

Motivation: Revenge; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 150 pp. Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1400 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1400 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.