Description: He wears a black costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on his torso. He sports a long silver beard, and similarly colored long hair. His fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He has worked as a Barkeep like his father before him.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Gifted, Athletic. Bonds: Family, Military, Job. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 1000 gp.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears a pastel collared shirt and tan pants. He accessorizes with a pastel scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. He has done his best to style his black hair to look like a famous performer. He has a dull look in his blue eyes.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. The war was a terrible time for him, and Beiro does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Beiro was raised in a hard working conservative environment. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the island to a summer home near a ruined castle. He would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the island due to the painful memories there. Beiro took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up quarterstaff and armor he uses now. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Military, Job, Nature. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 200 gp. Brown-green garnet (80 gp). Malachite (14 gp). Amber (80 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp).

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He sports a flattop hair cut. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: He was born in the east. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 320 pp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a yellow costume with the symbols of his god on his torso. His black hair is matted, messy, and big. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are green.

Personality: This man loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, Antagonistic. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 400 pp. Smoky quartz (70 gp). Star rose quartz (70 gp). Peridot (70 gp). Rose (70 gp). Jasper (70 gp). Lapis lazuli (11 gp). Chrysoberyl (120 gp). Blue diamond (4000 gp). Moss agate (11 gp). Smoky quartz (70 gp). Blue sapphire (1600 gp). Zircon (70 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (11 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears grey painted combat armor at almost all times. He has wavy golden hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

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. His childhood dream was to be a Fletcher, but he was a colossal failure. He has achieved small success as a Banker.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: Just what you see.