Description: He wears a green collared shirt and white pants. He accessorizes with a blue scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt, and he perpetually has his hand crossbow ready. With a patchy white beard and wild white hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. 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: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Erdan was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Erdan fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 400 pp. Star ruby (900 gp). Violet garnet (200 gp). Azurite (5 gp). Rhodochrosite (5 gp). Obsidian (5 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His tied-back hair is black. His skin is flawless and his brown eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Aelar grew up listening to his mother's many stories. 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. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 9000 gp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (110 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (110 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (700 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (110 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (3000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1100 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp). Gold and ruby ring (9000 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (40 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (40 gp). Jeweled anklet (2000 gp).

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears a white armored body suit, with a simple red line shooting up and back down. He keeps his long silver hair kept up in a rat tail. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: He was born into a rich family. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. 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: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 4000 gp. Blue quartz (16 gp). Sard (50 gp). Black pearl (1600 gp). Lapis lazuli (16 gp). Obsidian (16 gp). Tourmaline (80 gp). Red garnet (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. Sporting a chestnut mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Berrian will drive conversation. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father 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. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: To end his boredom.

Ideals: Athletic, Extrovert. Flaws: Forgetful, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 400 gp. Black star sapphire (1600 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). Banded agate (14 gp). White opal (1600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a mite stocky and dresses like a well dressed Engraver does. His chestnut hair is unkempt and raggedy. He wears an eyepatch.

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

History: Born to a Knight, his father struggled to pay the bills. In his 13th 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: He feels threatened by others; and to be a knight again

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 12000 sp.