Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing yellow cape and mantle trimmed with soft tan waves gently in the breeze. His white hair is braided into rings. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Family, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 4000 gp. Solid gold idol (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 4'8" and likes to wear ponchos typically of a light yellow in addition to tight pants. He is bald on top and has large auburn tufts of hair around his ears. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Traki was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Optimist, Logical, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 1600 gp. Moss agate (9 gp). Banded agate (9 gp). Amethyst (100 gp).

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he is well dressed, constantly wearing a grey suit, blue shirt, and brown tie. His small hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His ears are large.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Soapmaker born in the past three hundred years. 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 a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. 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. After a long history of fighting, Rolen and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Mentor. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 500 gp. Jet (100 gp). Golden pearl (100 gp).

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears many layers of old clothing at all times, and is pretty ugly. He wears a feathered hat to cover his moderate length auburn hair. His eyes are hazel and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered writing. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Pacifist, Logical, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (90 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy chestnut stubble. He wears a simple grey robe with white stripes complete with hood. He has a hunchback. His chestnut hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Lamlis grew up listening to his mother's many stories. Lamlis 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. Lamlis 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. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and obtaining odd cultural elven artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 1200 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.