Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His white hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: He was born in a small island village. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered dancing. He has never given up on his dancing dream.

Motivation: Revenge.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Opinionated, Artistic. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears a brown Stetson hat and brown clothes. His white hair is still thick. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: Uthemar hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his poetry career. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: He is a Hag in disguise. A freak accident while working with his Layabout father left him crippled. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and balancing his hectic life and new mercenary responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: Golden pearl (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This western man wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with green colored cloaks and clothing. His clothes are grease stained in places. He has done his best to style his white hair to look like a famous performer. His eyes are blue and beady.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. His first spouse was a Seamstress, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job, Family. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 100 pp. Silver comb with moonstones (800 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (6000 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (90 gp). A small bag of saffron. (40 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (4000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a black coat over a brown low-cut shirt, and a deerstalker hat upon his head. He keeps his long golden hair kept up in a rat tail. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are violet.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: He was raised in a plains tribe. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered writing. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Secretive, Lazy. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 2000 gp. Fiery yellow corundum (1600 gp). Hematite (5 gp). Deep green spinel (90 gp). Deep blue spinel (400 gp). Zircon (60 gp). Alexandrite (400 gp). Aquamarine (400 gp). Golden yellow topaz (400 gp). Carnelian (60 gp).

Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He has a long chestnut beard with little hanging trinkets. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the mountains 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 mountains due to the painful memories there. Vanuath took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up longsword and armor he uses now. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 190 pp. A necklace of small pink pearls (6000 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (10 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (10 gp). Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (90 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (10 gp).