Description: This dark-skinned male wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His chestnut hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a small hat. This gray eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: Theren hails from a village terrorized by illithids. As a young child he wandered into the woods despite his father's warnings against it. Afterwards he claimed he had encountered illithids who tried to eat his hand. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is greedy

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 13000 sp. Violet garnet (1500 gp). Obsidian (10 gp). Black pearl (1500 gp). Brown-green garnet (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears bulky brown painted plate armor. His auburn hair is braided into rings. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Shoemaker. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Adventurer, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 50000 cp. Bloodstone (50 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). Freshwater pearl (6 gp).

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Elf, and stands approximately 4'11". He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a white coat, and his gloved hand is found clutching a monstrous two handed axe. His silver hair is smooth and relatively long. His violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Architect arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered east to less war torn lands. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Butcher again; and wants to raise his children well

Flaws: Addict, PTSD. Bonds: Job, Family, Rich. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: Amber (90 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He tends to wear a blue poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He is portly but not overly obese. He has no hair. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: When he was but 3 years old his parents immigrated from the north. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire; and wants his loneliness to end

Flaws: Ugly, Secretive, PTSD. Bonds: Has a crush, Immigrant. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Black pearl (800 gp).

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His blonde hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his blue eyes.

Personality: He hates gnolls. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He has all his life been fascinated with music.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Navigator arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. At some point he was captured by gnolls and was tortured. After several years of this he finally managed to escape. He has never given up on his music dream.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and money/treasure

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Slave, Attractive, Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 2600 gp. Rhodochrosite (15 gp). Star ruby (1400 gp). Aquamarine (300 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1400 gp). Golden pearl (90 gp). Fire opal (1400 gp). Jet (90 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.