Description: He is scrawny and has patchy golden stubble. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has a hunchback. He wears his golden hair up. He has a dull look in his violet eyes.

Personality: He hates Elves with a passion. As such he is filled with self loathing. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. 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. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Elven people; and elven compassion

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Racist, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Server

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 300 gp. Violet garnet (700 gp). Smoky quartz (70 gp). Azurite (5 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He is typically in his Actor uniform. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Heian was born the youngest of three triplets. In his 16th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter; and expand his business

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 1700 gp.

Description: This slender man stands about 5'5". He wears pastel painted combat armor at almost all times. He wears his red hair up. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Adran will drive conversation. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. 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. Being a Herbalist kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Extrovert, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 370 pp. Hematite (5 gp). Obsidian (5 gp). Malachite (5 gp). Star ruby (1500 gp). Deep green spinel (120 gp). White pearl (120 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). Chrysoprase (40 gp). Golden pearl (120 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing red cape and mantle trimmed with soft pastel waves gently in the breeze. His chestnut hair is lengthy. His ears are large.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. 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 has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 4000 sp. Rhodochrosite (4 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. He is wearing a long, black, dusty cloak. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His white hair is unkempt and raggedy. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Flaws: Ugly, Emotional, Fearful. Bonds: Slave, Poor, Religious. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 100 gp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1800 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (500 gp).