Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His hair is cut close to his head. His ears are large.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Aelar lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Aelar has worked very hard to control his curse. After a long history of fighting, Aelar and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To unite with his sister.

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: Tourmaline (90 gp). Emerald (1600 gp). Star rose quartz (40 gp). Pink pearl (90 gp). Iolite (40 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). Chrysoberyl (90 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Rock crystal (40 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This light-skinned male wears blue robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a warhammer, but if one is not available he will default to his halberd. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. He sports a flattop hair cut. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of giants may trigger it at times.

History: Theriatis was born the youngest of three triplets. He married young, but lost his spouse to giants. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and revenge

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Enemies, Family. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 400 pp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1100 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (900 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1100 gp). Solid gold idol (800 gp).

Description: This malnourished man wears a brown costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on his torso. His tied-back hair is chestnut. This gray eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. Being a Scribe kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; 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: Justice, Joker, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 4000 sp. Amber (90 gp). Malachite (16 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears suspenders and blue workpants. His shirt is black, and he wears a heavy blue leather apron most of the time, and carries quarterstaffs. His chestnut hair has been sun bleached extensively. His violet eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Adventurer born in the past three hundred years. He is a great chef.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted, Entrepeneur, Logical. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: Emerald (1500 gp). Freshwater pearl (6 gp). Lapis lazuli (6 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a green shirt, with a red mid length shorts with red tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. He wears a colorful flower in his black hair. His hazel eyes peer out from beneath his wide-brimmed green hat.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of illithids may trigger it at times.

History: He was born in the west. After coming to the age of reason, Efferil took it upon himself to study the martial arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it; and a deep hatred of illithids

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 10000 sp. Malachite (5 gp).