Description: This man stands a little under 5'5" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears a tan shirt, with a violet mid length shorts with violet tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. He has a very tight haircut. His amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes giants are coming to abduct people. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Arannis hails from a village terrorized by giants. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Enemies, In love, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 1300 gp.

Description: A stocky darker skinned man, he wears a brown wide-brimmed hat and brown clothes. His red hair is thinning but still full. He has a dull look in his brown eyes.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: Dreali lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. After coming to the age of reason, Dreali took it upon himself to study the druidic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Spice Merchant for the past few years.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 4000 sp. Red garnet (90 gp). White opal (1100 gp). Red garnet (90 gp).

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 4'10" and wears a green cloak and cross-gartered tan stockings. His auburn hair, when down, is lengthy. His skin is flawless and his violet eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Justice, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Slave. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 1100 gp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (70 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2400 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (3000 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he has a large tan mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his brown robe. His long chestnut hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His violet eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Fivin fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 8000 sp. Moss agate (8 gp). Rhodochrosite (8 gp). Moss agate (8 gp). Red spinel (80 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Jet (80 gp).

Description: This western man tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. His clothes are grease stained in places. His silver hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. 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: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Suhnae was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found.

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Criminal record, Mentor, Family. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 600 gp. Lapis lazuli (15 gp). Bloodstone (80 gp). Hematite (15 gp). Moonstone (80 gp). Eye agate (15 gp). Obsidian (15 gp). Blue quartz (15 gp). Rich purple corundum (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.