Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears long strands of emerald and short black dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His brown hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a small hat. His ears are large.

Personality: He is a Sculptor first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand his business; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 600 gp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (110 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp).

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. His chestnut hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. His hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Elves.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Elves became a terror of the countryside. 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. Varis fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and he feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Opinionated, Gifted, Fighting, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Occupation: Banker

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 70 pp.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 4'11" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He prefers to wear blue clothing when he does not wear armor. His blonde hair is long and unkept. He has brown eyes.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Azaki was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

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

Ideals: Philantrophist, Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 3000 gp. Jasper (40 gp). Blue star sapphire (400 gp). Chalcedony (40 gp). Violet garnet (900 gp). Deep green spinel (70 gp). Obsidian (10 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: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he tends to wear a brown poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He wears his auburn hair up. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. 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, Quarion is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

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. Quarion was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Quarion decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Junk Dealer for hire.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions.

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 3000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This southern man is abnormally tall. He wears grey painted combat armor at almost all times. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. Sporting a brown mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. He has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this southern guy figured out how to best use his charms to convince people to do what he wants. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the south. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day.

Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 1700 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (20 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2300 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (50 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (50 gp).