Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a grey coat. His chestnut hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Ideals: Logical, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His brown hair is unkempt and raggedy. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 2000 sp. Solid gold idol (400 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2400 gp). Old masterpiece painting (900 gp). Jeweled gold crown (2000 gp).

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep grey leather and dull green iron scale mail. He wears a deerstalker hat to hide his balding. He has violet eyes.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: He got into the Gardener business at a young age. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Philantrophist, Persistence. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 40000 cp.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His long golden hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Cook. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Himo was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. His parents were killed by illithids in a raid when he was still a young child. The illithids captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Cook responsibilities is difficult; and to clean up the streets

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Enemies, Guardian. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: This man wears a white wide-brimmed hat and white clothes. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His brown hair is greasy and uncared for. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Healer arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. 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. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and obtaining odd cultural elven artifacts is his passion

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Rich, Criminal record, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 1400 gp. Deep blue spinel (1400 gp). Coral (80 gp). Lapis lazuli (12 gp).