Description: An older man who typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep brown leather and dull pastel iron scale mail, he is not a threatening figure. He wears his black hair up in a very large beehive style do. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He disdains his fellow westerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Theren was born on a far western forest where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Mercenary. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Mercenary and was forced into it by his family; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job, Family. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 3000 gp. Eye agate (9 gp). Emerald (800 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. He has done his best to style his white hair to look like a famous performer. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Depressed, Shy, Ugly. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1600 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (50 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1100 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1600 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (50 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is dressed in a clean violet cloak covering his clean studded leather. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his scythe, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a cross on it. He has wavy golden hair. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gray eyes.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. 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: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. His mother worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled mother and took his mother's old job. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Disease. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 4000 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Gold music box (4000 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (100 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1100 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (70 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (70 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (800 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.