Description: He wears green trousers with black and grey striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He is portly but not overly obese. He wears a colorful flower in his black hair. He is baby faced.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Aust was born with his mother's beautiful face. He moved out north to avoid the crime he committed. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he's in love

Flaws: Impulsive, Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Has a crush. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 2000 gp.

Description: He tends to wear a green poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His silver hair is braided into rings. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his brown eyes.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He was born in the east. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: 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; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 1000 gp. Jade (150 gp). Chalcedony (20 gp). Lapis lazuli (11 gp). White opal (1500 gp).

Description: He wears a grey collared shirt and green pants. He accessorizes with a tan scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. He is portly but not overly obese. His chestnut hair is still thick. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Healer arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Rich, Slave, Job. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 1800 gp. Black pearl (1500 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty brown coat over it. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He has a long golden beard with little hanging trinkets. His eyes are likewise violet.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave, Religious, Military. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 7000 sp.

Description: He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane, and carries bows. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His eyes are likewise hazel. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

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. A true patriot, Uthemar would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: Uthemar lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. He advanced relatively quickly due to his good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Sage and was forced into it by his family.

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Military, Family. Occupation: Sage

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 600 gp. Eye agate (4 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.