Description: This malnourished man tends to wear a large blue jacket. His black hair is cut short. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Heian was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and to settle down with his crush

Ideals: Joker, Fighting. Bonds: Poor, Military, Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 4000 sp.

Description: This man wears a white shirt with thin black vertical stripes and brown pants. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. He has auburn hair. His eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He is a great chef.

History: Naal was born with his father's beautiful face. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Rich, Family. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 220 pp. Blue quartz (8 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1500 gp). Freshwater pearl (8 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Varis will drive conversation. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Varis grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Varis. 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. Varis fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and to reunite with his absent mother

Ideals: Extrovert, Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 1900 gp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He prefers to wear grey clothing when he does not wear armor. His moppish blonde hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His eyes are a pleasant hazel.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Religious, Military, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears silk and lounges about seductively. He is an epitome of beauty. His auburn hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. He has a dull look in his brown eyes.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: He was born at the edge of vast forest. He found a children's book about a Elf Sorcerer who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He bought a dagger and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends.

Ideals: Justice, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: Black star sapphire (700 gp). Carnelian (70 gp). Deep blue spinel (1400 gp). 1 Minor magic item.