Description: He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He wears a colorful flower in his blonde hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his father. 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. After a long history of fighting, Traki and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs.

Flaws: Insane, Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 1200 gp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (50 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1800 gp). Gold music box (4000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp).

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 auburn hair is singed and shortened. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 1000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A stocky darker skinned man, he is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Architect. His golden hair has been sun bleached extensively. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Thamior hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. Thamior was born on a far northern plains where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Architect. He has dedicated himself to building a better village for his children.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and many dire rats want him driven away

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Enemies, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 1600 gp. Alexandrite (1300 gp). Chrysoprase (30 gp). Moss agate (13 gp). Amethyst (140 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp). Azurite (13 gp). Malachite (13 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep yellow leather and dull brown iron scale mail. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His brown hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. A friendly and beautiful Elf, he is rarely seen without a few beauties around his arms. Though a playboy in all rights, he is no lame duck.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Slave, Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 1100 gp. Eye agate (7 gp). Carnelian (20 gp). Lapis lazuli (7 gp). Smoky quartz (20 gp). Red garnet (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

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. He sports a long red beard, and similarly colored long hair. His brown eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 5000 sp. A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (100 gp).