Description: This exceptionally lanky man is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. His red hair is still thick. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Hadarai was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He became a Cook soon after.

Motivation: Expand his business; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Family, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 1200 gp. Rhodochrosite (10 gp). Violet garnet (1600 gp). Blue quartz (10 gp). Black star sapphire (700 gp). Smoky quartz (40 gp).

Description: This man is very fat, and wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his warhammer with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He has a golden handlebar mustache and slicked back golden hair. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines amber.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Dayereth was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Revenge; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 400 gp. Alexandrite (1300 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (10 gp). Violet garnet (1300 gp). Rhodochrosite (10 gp). Blue star sapphire (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a husky man, who likes to wear black tank tops with brown pants. He keeps his long red hair kept up in a rat tail. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes goblins are coming to abduct people. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his singing with anyone who is interested.

History: Born in the south to a Seamstress, Laucian learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Enemies, Family, Job, Slave. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 3000 gp. Alexandrite (1400 gp). Emerald (1300 gp). Onyx (50 gp). Blue sapphire (1300 gp). Blue sapphire (1300 gp). Red spinel (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He is dressed in a clean violet cloak covering his clean studded leather. His red hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep.

Ideals: Athletic, Justice. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Healer

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 3000 sp. Lapis lazuli (10 gp). Lapis lazuli (10 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This malnourished man is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He sports a long golden beard, and similarly colored long hair. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady violet eyes.

Personality: Efferil wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Sorcerer, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... 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: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the east. Efferil was born on a far eastern desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Bounty Hunter. 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. Efferil fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 1100 gp. Sardonyx (30 gp). Deep blue spinel (700 gp). Blue sapphire (1100 gp). Rock crystal (30 gp). Carnelian (30 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp). Aquamarine (700 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1100 gp).