Description: This man wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His chestnut hair is smooth and relatively long. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: Halimath was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Being born in the south, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the south for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. He has never given up on his music dream.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 1100 gp.

Description: This man dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized emerald on his left hand. His auburn hair is thinning but still full. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes brigands are coming to abduct people. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Gennal has worked very hard to control his curse. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Gennal fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and he desires to right it; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 3000 sp.

Description: He wears a blue tunic with pastel highlights, and long green pants that bunch up around his shoes. With bright black hair and a scraggly beard. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

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. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Sensitive, Forgetful. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 3000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 5'2" and muscular, this eastern man wears suspenders and green workpants. His shirt is grey, and he wears a heavy green leather apron most of the time. He has moderate length brown hair. 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 never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. Galinndan enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Bather arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist. Flaws: Insomniac, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 220 pp. Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Black pearl (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, he prefers to wear blue pants and tee shirts. His black hair is braided into rings. His green eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Efferil embodies much of what other species detest in the Elves. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Efferil was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Efferil has worked very hard to control his curse. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Cartwright responsibilities is difficult; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Antagonistic, Insomniac, Disease. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

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