Description: This dark-skinned male is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His head has been shaved. His blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

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 pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: Paelias hails from a village terrorized by illithids. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Paelias was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 4000 sp. Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. He wears a deerstalker hat to cover his moderate length golden hair. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Elven culture. He takes great joy in being the best Brewer in town.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. In his 14th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Flaws: Racist, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Job, Nature. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 1000 gp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He is wearing a long, white cloak. His hair, while still mostly blonde, has prominent grey streaks. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his music with anyone who is interested.

History: Born in the east his family was never financially stable. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer, Family, Poor. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 1200 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This malnourished man typically wears brown cloth garments or leather armor. He has a very tight haircut. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He hates Elves with a passion. As such he is filled with self loathing. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Rolen grew up listening to his mother's many stories. He has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Elven people; and obtaining odd cultural elven artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Justice, Artistic. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 2500 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (6 gp).

Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He wears a tan shirt with thin black vertical stripes and blue pants. He sports a flattop hair cut. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Sculptor business.

History: Erdan lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Persistence, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 200 pp. White pearl (150 gp). White pearl (150 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp). Amethyst (150 gp). Amber (150 gp). Sardonyx (70 gp). Pink pearl (150 gp). Jet (150 gp). White opal (800 gp). Smoky quartz (70 gp). Blue star sapphire (800 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.