Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His white hair is cut short. His fierce blue eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Varis was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. He moved out west to avoid the crime he committed. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and balancing his hectic life and new cartwright responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 200 gp. Star rose quartz (50 gp). Amethyst (40 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1500 gp). 1 Chain shirt.

Description: He wears skinny pants and wears a green and brown robe with the hood down, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'4" when asserting himself. He has styled his auburn hair well, parting it to the left. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Fivin grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Fivin. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 800 pp. Blue quartz (14 gp). Deep blue spinel (1300 gp). Sardonyx (50 gp). Brown-green garnet (80 gp). Peridot (50 gp). Alexandrite (1300 gp). Zircon (50 gp). Red-brown spinel (80 gp). Red spinel (80 gp). Brown-green 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: A plain young-adult man, he wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He has no hair. His eyes are hazel.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture.

Flaws: Ugly, Selfish, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 1900 gp. Chrysoprase (80 gp). Alexandrite (1000 gp). Coral (160 gp). Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears dull brown sweaters, loose black pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed quarterstaff, just in case. His black hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He has a dull look in his violet eyes.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Aerdeth embodies much of what other species detest in the Elves. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

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. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Elven companion (his 'brother'). He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 4000 gp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2200 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (100 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This malnourished man wears a grey vest and prefers yellow and black shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His hair is white and curly. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the north. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 1500 gp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (60 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (600 gp).