Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His auburn hair is singed and shortened. His eyes are blue.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Military, Slave, Rich. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 2200 gp. Freshwater pearl (7 gp). Freshwater pearl (7 gp). Banded agate (7 gp).

Description: This slender man stands about 5'3". He dresses in black turtlenecks beneath a tan coat with violet slacks. His moppish silver hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his mother. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire; and to protect his home

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Guardian, Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 1100 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 4'7" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized brown coat. He has styled his chestnut hair well, parting it to the left. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are green.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: Quarion was born with his father's beautiful face. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother 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 never given up on his dancing dream.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Impulsive, Shy. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 29000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: With pastel face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he usually wears his violet robe and has his nunchaku always slung over his shoulder. He has no hair. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing painting.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Ostracized due to the necromantic powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Elves became a terror of the countryside. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 2000 gp. Sardonyx (60 gp). Citrine (60 gp). Lapis lazuli (4 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a yellow vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His black leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his yellow boots flare out at the collars. His black hair is knotted and matted. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Theren is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. A gifted student he started as a Beggar, but he got bored and became a Masseuse. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Insomniac, Shy. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 3000 sp. Deep green spinel (90 gp). Lapis lazuli (8 gp). Emerald (500 gp).