Description: This man very much looks the part of a Body Guard. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized amber on his left hand. His hair, while still mostly black, has prominent grey streaks. This blue eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family He moved out south to avoid the crime he committed. He struck the Body Guard job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; 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

Flaws: Selfish, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 220 pp.

Description: He wears a black vest and prefers yellow and brown shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down, and he perpetually has his monstrous two handed axe ready. His hair is long and auburn with streaks of brown, and is pulled back with small black clips. His beard is brown, braided, and well cared for. His eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. The war was a terrible time for him, and Lucan does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Lucan was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Lucan fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To protect his home.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Guardian, Military. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 3000 gp. Solid gold idol (200 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1100 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1100 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (100 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. He wears his silver hair down. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. As he has aged he has sought to do reparations for his actions as a youth. He is also making sure that his compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: He was born in a small mountains village. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the mountains to a summer home near a ruined castle. He would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the mountains due to the painful memories there. Thervan took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up sai and armor he uses now. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and he desires to right it; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Optimist, Justice. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 1800 gp.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He is dressed in a clean blue cloak covering his clean studded leather. He keeps his brown hair in a pixie cut. He has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Elven companion (his 'brother'). He has dedicated himself to building a better village for his children.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 100 pp. Hematite (11 gp). Emerald (1200 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He wears a blue shirt, with a violet mid length shorts with violet tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. His red hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a Stetson hat. His eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: Suhnae lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Suhnae was born on a far northern mountains where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Shipwright. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Elven artifacts is his passion; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 1000 gp. Gold music box (1000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (90 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.