Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He is dressed in an above average manner. He has silver hair. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: He is a Yochlol in disguise. Aerdeth was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Aerdeth decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal.

Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Nature, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 1000 gp. Obsidian (6 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp). Deep green spinel (150 gp). Brown-green garnet (150 gp). Azurite (6 gp). Violet garnet (1600 gp). Obsidian (6 gp). Citrine (40 gp). Bloodstone (40 gp). Rhodochrosite (6 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Elf, and stands approximately 4'9". He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured, and his gloved hand is found clutching a scimitar. He wears his white hair down. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: Born in the north his family was never financially stable. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; 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: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This slender man stands about 5'1". He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His golden hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered poetry. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Secretive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 60000 cp. Blue quartz (7 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp).

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears a brown tunic with grey highlights, and long violet pants that bunch up around his shoes. Sporting a brown mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines brown.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: Lucan lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 worked as a Shipwright like his father before him.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Joker, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Family, Job. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned man, he likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Paelias grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Paelias. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Job, Nature, Religious, Criminal record. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 4000 gp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1900 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (170 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Solid gold idol (800 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (170 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (5000 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (300 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.