Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His tied-back hair is brown. His eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: He is mildly Elf supremacist, though he does not identify as such. He takes great joy in being the best Merchant in town.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Aelar grew up listening to his father's many stories. In his 20th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother 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 has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Elven artifacts is his passion.

Flaws: Racist, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 900 pp. Gold music box (2000 gp).

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His hair is always cut to a buzz. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the west. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 600 pp. Coral (90 gp). Lapis lazuli (5 gp). White pearl (90 gp). Azurite (5 gp). Eye agate (5 gp). Golden yellow topaz (200 gp). Rhodochrosite (5 gp). Amber (90 gp). Black pearl (200 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (5 gp).

Description: He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes., and carries daggers. He has dyed his greying black hair a little too much giving a sharp black color. His gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Vanuath fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 1000 gp. Malachite (4 gp). Chrysoprase (50 gp). Malachite (4 gp). White opal (1200 gp).