Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His chestnut hair is heavily combed to the right. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Uthemar is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor, In love. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 4000 gp. Coral (130 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Onyx (80 gp). Jasper (80 gp). Carnelian (80 gp). Tourmaline (130 gp). Star ruby (1300 gp). Peridot (80 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). Hematite (14 gp). Rich purple corundum (1300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A 4'9" eastern man, he is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. He wears his golden hair down. He has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his singing with anyone who is interested.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Family. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 120 pp. Tiger eye turquoise (14 gp). Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). Chrysoberyl (160 gp). Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). Star rose quartz (40 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp).

Description: He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs, and carries shields. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep hazel.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Gifted from a young age, Paelias studied abroad. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; 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

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 300 gp. Black pearl (500 gp). Peridot (20 gp).

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He wears his black hair up. His green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. 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 is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 2100 gp. Jeweled electrum ring (3000 gp). Jeweled gold crown (3000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (30 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (500 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His red hair is smooth and relatively long. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are hazel.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Erdan grew up listening to his father's many stories. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Erdan 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 Erdan. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: In love, Job, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Spanish accent

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