Description: This northern man is abnormally tall. He tends to wear a green poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His moppish blonde hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to be a roofer again

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Military, Nature, Job. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 2000 gp.

Description: He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He is portly but not overly obese. His hair is chestnut, silky, and of moderate length. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are blue.

Personality: Immeral hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his writing career. He is an amazing painter.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. In his 19th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He was granted psionic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 4000 gp. Alexandrite (500 gp). Black opal (1100 gp). Lapis lazuli (12 gp). Azurite (12 gp). Onyx (80 gp). Malachite (12 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears a tight fitting white shirt and pants. He wears his auburn hair up. His ears are large.

Personality: Koeth is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: Koeth was raised in a hard working conservative environment. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 3000 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (70 gp). Jeweled gold crown (6000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (70 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (2000 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (900 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (80 gp).