Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears a fancy green suit. His black hair is heavily combed to the right. His eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with painting. He constantly tries to fill his life with painting. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Nature, Job. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 1700 gp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (40 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (40 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (40 gp).

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, 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 red hair, when down, is lengthy. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are hazel.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Eiravel hails from a village terrorized by giants. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. Being a Barber 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: To find somewhere to settle down; and revenge

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: Tiger eye turquoise (12 gp). Chrysoprase (40 gp). Pink pearl (80 gp). Coral (80 gp).

Description: This eastern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He dresses in blue turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with green slacks. His red hair is matted, messy, and big. He has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: Aelar was born in the east. At a young age he loved to build and create. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Ruler. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: He's attracted to the PC.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Guardian, Has a crush. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 300 pp. Carnelian (70 gp). Aquamarine (900 gp). Moss agate (5 gp). Violet garnet (900 gp). Star rose quartz (70 gp). Violet garnet (900 gp). Black star sapphire (1200 gp). Jade (50 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp). Rhodochrosite (5 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He has a large black mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his tan robe. His brown hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: Ivellios lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Insomniac, Shy. Bonds: Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 800 gp. Sard (50 gp). Zircon (50 gp).

Description: 4'8" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. 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 black hair is smooth and relatively long. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes brigands are coming to abduct people. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Rich, Job. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 400 gp. Hematite (14 gp).