Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His long golden hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: He was born in the south. As a very small child his family refused to pay dues to a local crime lord, who ordered them killed. His mother, a somewhat powerful mage sought to protect him and cast a teleportation spell that whisked him away. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 3000 sp. A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (100 gp).

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he very much looks the part of a Actor. With bright red hair and a scraggly beard. His eyes are amber and beady.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family His childhood dream was to be a Guard, but he was a colossal failure. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Actor for the past few years.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Insane. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This western man wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with green colored cloaks and clothing. His clothes are grease stained in places. He has done his best to style his white hair to look like a famous performer. His eyes are blue and beady.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. His first spouse was a Seamstress, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job, Family. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 100 pp. Silver comb with moonstones (800 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (6000 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (90 gp). A small bag of saffron. (40 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (4000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a black coat over a brown low-cut shirt, and a deerstalker hat upon his head. He keeps his long golden hair kept up in a rat tail. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are violet.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: He was raised in a plains tribe. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered writing. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Secretive, Lazy. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 2000 gp. Fiery yellow corundum (1600 gp). Hematite (5 gp). Deep green spinel (90 gp). Deep blue spinel (400 gp). Zircon (60 gp). Alexandrite (400 gp). Aquamarine (400 gp). Golden yellow topaz (400 gp). Carnelian (60 gp).

Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He has a long chestnut beard with little hanging trinkets. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the mountains to a summer home near a ruined castle. He would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the mountains due to the painful memories there. Vanuath took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up longsword and armor he uses now. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 190 pp. A necklace of small pink pearls (6000 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (10 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (10 gp). Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (90 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (10 gp).