Description: He wears a grey vest and prefers white and black shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. 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. After a long history of fighting, Efferil and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 3000 gp. Black pearl (200 gp). Black pearl (200 gp). Alexandrite (200 gp). Moss agate (5 gp). Sardonyx (70 gp). Carnelian (70 gp). Black pearl (200 gp). Chalcedony (70 gp). Red garnet (40 gp). Sardonyx (70 gp). Sard (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This southern man is abnormally tall. He dresses well, wearing black shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His black hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Erevan hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his poetry career. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Erevan was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered poetry. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Poor. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 400 pp. Jasper (80 gp). Moss agate (8 gp).

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized tan coat. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy brown hair. His gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Jeweler born in the past three hundred years. He seeks to pay back kindness whenever he gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip he always seeks to do solids for his friends.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his mother. 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 set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Stableman again.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. Jasper (80 gp). Hematite (15 gp). Deep blue spinel (400 gp). Star ruby (1100 gp). Alexandrite (400 gp). Rich purple corundum (1100 gp). Black pearl (400 gp). Eye agate (15 gp). Jasper (80 gp). Jet (150 gp). Red spinel (150 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.