Description: This tall, slender man is dressed in earthy colors with a grey and tan handkerchief worn on his left side. His black hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Unemployed arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Mayor again.

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 4000 gp. Star ruby (1000 gp). Smoky quartz (30 gp). Azurite (10 gp). Golden yellow topaz (500 gp). Jasper (30 gp). Rhodochrosite (10 gp). Aquamarine (500 gp). Amethyst (120 gp). Blue star sapphire (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with tan lining and desert motifs. He wears his golden hair up. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Beiro hails from a village terrorized by illithids. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. After a long history of fighting, Beiro and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 300 pp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (120 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1500 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is a pot bellied eastern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a white deerstalker hat and white clothes. His brown hair is greasy and uncared for. His brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. Dayereth is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Dayereth grew up listening to his mother's many stories. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Shepherd and was forced into it by his family.

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 4000 gp. Blue quartz (6 gp). Coral (80 gp). Golden pearl (80 gp). Rhodochrosite (6 gp). Jet (80 gp). Pink pearl (80 gp). Blue quartz (6 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp). Rock crystal (20 gp). Emerald (700 gp). Red-brown spinel (80 gp).