Description: He is lean but muscular and wears tattered old clothes. His wide-brimmed hat is riddled with cuts and holes. This gray eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. Some 2 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Carrie never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Shy. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 4000 gp. Rose (60 gp). Malachite (12 gp). Lapis lazuli (12 gp). Deep blue spinel (1400 gp). Jade (140 gp). Emerald (1200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears dull white sweaters, loose green pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed shortspear, just in case, and he perpetually has his shortspear ready. He has a chestnut handlebar mustache and slicked back chestnut hair. His eyes are hazel and beady.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Painter 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: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Azaki was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He worked as a nervous Painter and found it very stressful. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Mentor. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 300 pp. Alexandrite (1400 gp). Sard (70 gp). Azurite (11 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1400 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1400 gp).

Description: He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His skin is flawless and his amber eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. A freak accident while working with his Engraver father left him crippled. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (500 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (3000 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (80 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (800 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (80 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (500 gp).