Description: He wears silk and lounges about seductively. He is portly but not overly obese. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: He is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. He also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Stableman business.

History: He was born in a small forest village. 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. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Cartwright they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Stableman, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 900 pp. Rhodochrosite (12 gp). White pearl (100 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Eye agate (12 gp). Eye agate (12 gp). Fire opal (1300 gp). Brown diamond (3000 gp). Jade (100 gp). Red-brown spinel (100 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp). Deep green spinel (100 gp). Chrysoprase (70 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: 4'10" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears a brown vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His black leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his brown boots flare out at the collars. He wears his golden hair up in a very large beehive style do. He has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: He was raised in a mountains tribe. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and money/treasure

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Nature. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 4'11" and wears a black vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His brown leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his black boots flare out at the collars. He has dyed his greying auburn hair a little too much giving a sharp auburn color. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes brigands are coming to abduct people. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: Revenge.

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 900 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his longbow, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a cross on it. His auburn hair, when down, is lengthy. His violet eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. 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: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out.

Ideals: Optimist, Justice. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record, Slave. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 1100 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A middle-aged man, he is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft green waves gently in the breeze, and is pretty ugly. He has moderate length chestnut hair. His amber eyes peer out from beneath his deerstalker black hat.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Herbalist born in the past three hundred years. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Paelias is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born into a rich family. He moved out east to avoid the crime he committed. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 3000 gp. Blue quartz (8 gp). Carnelian (60 gp). Banded agate (8 gp). Tourmaline (120 gp). Alexandrite (1600 gp). Fire opal (1400 gp). Rose (60 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.