Description: He has a missing right leg. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. His blonde hair has been sun bleached extensively. His eyes are a pleasant brown.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Doctor. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Elven companion (his 'brother'). He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and to be a mortician again

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 900 gp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (100 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (600 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He usually wears his black robe and has his mace always slung over his shoulder. His blonde hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He is an amazing painter.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Bookbinder arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. While he appears to be a normal Elf, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. 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: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and money/treasure

Ideals: Athletic, Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This northern man is abnormally tall. He wears a brown costume with the symbols of strength on his torso. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His silver hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He has a dull look in his brown eyes.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: He was raised in a forest tribe. Because his mother participated in the massacre of their homeland, dire rats burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. He was preparing to flee to the north, but the outbreak of war prevented him and his father from journeying north to reunite his family. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He wants revenge against dire rats; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: Fiery yellow corundum (600 gp). Aquamarine (1400 gp). Red spinel (60 gp).

Description: This man wears a blue costume with the symbols of death on his torso, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His blonde hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His hazel eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Heian isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Elven unity. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: Heian hails from a village terrorized by orcs. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 1700 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 5'0" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. His long white hair reaches down to his waist. His eyes are likewise brown.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. 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, Adran is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born at the edge of vast mountains. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and to pay off his debts

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Criminal record, Debt. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 11000 sp. Pink pearl (40 gp). Violet garnet (200 gp). Moss agate (4 gp). Deep green spinel (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item.