Description: He is lean but muscular and typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull tan iron scale mail. He wears a colorful flower in his brown hair. He has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

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 is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the east. 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 Guard. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and balancing his hectic life and new guard responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 700 gp. Moss agate (16 gp). Jasper (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He stands about 4'7" and wears tattered old clothes. His right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His brown hair is thinning but still full. His eyes are brown and beady.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. Thervan liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He bought a longsword and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Disciplined, Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 100 gp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (700 gp). Solid gold idol (600 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Old masterpiece painting (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He has a missing left arm. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep tan leather and dull violet iron scale mail. He is bald on top and has large golden tufts of hair around his ears. His amber eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

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 always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Courier business.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: He's in love; and he wants to get laid

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Has a crush. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 7000 sp.

Description: This man wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with brown colored cloaks and clothing. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized emerald on his left hand. He keeps his silver hair in a pixie cut. His amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

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

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful, Mundane. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He wears a fancy black suit. His silver hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He has a good heart but also a terrible temper. He will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 4000 gp.