Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized brown coat. His chestnut hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He is content; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical, Persistence. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is lean but muscular and likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. His brown hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His eyes are amber and beady.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: The child of a Doctor, who enjoyed hunting, Heian was taken on many hunting expeditions. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle.

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature, Slave. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 100 gp. Silver pearl (60 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Golden yellow topaz (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a worn and beaten armor. His hair is white and very short. His violet eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Cartwright arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he is greedy

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Guardian, Adventurer, Rich, Job. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 1900 gp. Violet garnet (1200 gp). Red garnet (90 gp). Banded agate (12 gp).

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears blue trousers with violet and green striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. His silver hair, when down, is lengthy. His green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Fivin was raised in a hard working conservative environment. A serious injury left his mother unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm mother. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To settle down with his crush; and he would like to get married and retire

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Debt, Has a crush. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 1100 gp. Bloodstone (20 gp). Coral (140 gp). Sard (20 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Sardonyx (20 gp). Pink pearl (140 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp). Black pearl (600 gp).

Description: He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His auburn hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. His eyes are hazel and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Galinndan is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

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. After coming to the age of reason, Galinndan 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. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Extrovert, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.