Description: This man is very fat, and is typically in his Shepherd uniform. His white hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: Born in the east to a Shepherd, Uthemar learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. His parents were killed by gnolls in a raid when he was still a young child. The gnolls captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Flaws: Ugly, Terse, Shy. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 900 gp.

Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull brown iron scale mail. His hair is cut close to his head. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Halimath was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: 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; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 50000 cp. Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1800 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1900 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. He is an epitome of beauty. His red hair is lengthy. His green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. 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 pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Through the years after Aust was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Aust's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Miner

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 220 pp. Red spinel (40 gp).

Description: He prefers to wear flannel. He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His brown hair is thinning but still full. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. As he has aged he has sought to do reparations for his actions as a youth. He is also making sure that his compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. 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. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Optimist, Justice. Flaws: Insomniac, Mundane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 10000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 5'3" and muscular, this northern man wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with pastel lining and desert motifs. He wears a broad hat to cover his moderate length silver hair. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. 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: He is a Lycanthrope in disguise. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 4000 gp. Azurite (15 gp). Rose (80 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (900 gp). Obsidian (15 gp). Iolite (80 gp). Red garnet (150 gp).