Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. With bright black hair and a scraggly beard. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when giants swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. 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. He leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever he goes.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes.

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Hematite (6 gp). Sardonyx (20 gp). Onyx (20 gp).

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 4'9" and wears just a white suit. With bright chestnut hair and a scraggly beard. He has a dull look in his blue eyes.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He works hard and plays hard.

History: He got into the Cartwright business at a young age. A gifted student he started as a Glassblower, but he got bored and became a Cartwright. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and regain custody of his son

Ideals: Persistence, Athletic. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: An older man who wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body, he is not a threatening figure. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His ears are large.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He is obsessed with his god.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his mother. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Herbalist. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 1200 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (16 gp). Star ruby (400 gp). White pearl (90 gp). Hematite (16 gp). Carnelian (50 gp). Onyx (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a green cloak and cross-gartered red stockings. His brown hair is long and unkept. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. 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: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. 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.

Ideals: Pacifist, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 1600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. He has a very tight haircut. His eyes are likewise green. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. 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 saw the violence of war and the aftermath so he converted to religion and dedicated himself to non-violence.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Mundane, PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 6000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.