Description: With brown face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His hair, while still mostly blonde, has prominent grey streaks. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gray eyes.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Arannis grew up listening to his mother's many stories. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his necromantic talents. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He has a crush on the local Mason; and he's in love

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Impulsive. Bonds: Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 110 pp. Moss agate (12 gp). Carnelian (50 gp). Rhodochrosite (12 gp). Blue star sapphire (900 gp). Freshwater pearl (12 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (12 gp). Smoky quartz (50 gp). Black pearl (1300 gp).

Description: 5'0" and muscular, this eastern man is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright yellow and tan, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. He has done his best to style his black hair to look like a famous performer. His hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: Gifted from a young age, Traki studied abroad. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand his business; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 1900 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). Solid gold idol (300 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (50 gp). Silver ewer (50 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Elf, and stands approximately 5'0". He wears a worn and beaten armor, and his gloved hand is found clutching a bow. He has no hair. His face is scarred and worn.

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 dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Halimath lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. In his 16th year, his parents were killed by a giants raid, leaving Halimath alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, he put together a working one.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Persistence, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Enemies. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 3000 gp. Black opal (1300 gp). Black opal (1300 gp).

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears a black collared shirt and brown pants. He accessorizes with a yellow scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. He keeps his long brown hair kept up in a rat tail. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He worked as a nervous Carpenter and found it very stressful. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Military, Job. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 3000 gp. Lapis lazuli (10 gp). White pearl (80 gp). Red spinel (80 gp). Chrysoprase (40 gp). Red garnet (80 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp).

Description: He wears a worn and beaten armor. He carries with him a set of greatswords on his belt, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. His brown hair is cut short. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Raer was born the youngest of three triplets. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his necromantic talents. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Brewer and was forced into it by his family; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Fighting, Opinionated, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 140 pp. Azurite (7 gp). White opal (1100 gp).