Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a tattered pair of loose tan pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs, and a wedding ring on his right hand. He wears his black hair up in a very large beehive style do. His ears are large.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Mason. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. 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-brother.

History: Rael was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. A gifted student he started as a Bookbinder, but he got bored and became a Mason. He's also a talented Bookbinder, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and expand his business

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, In love, Job, Family. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. Gold and ruby ring (11000 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is well dressed, constantly wearing a red suit, white shirt, and violet tie. He has shaved his head bald. His green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. Thamior enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He wants revenge against dire rats.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Addict, Cynical, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 1000 pp. A necklace of small pink pearls (4000 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This slender man stands about 5'3". He wears a brown costume with the symbols of death on his torso. He wears a top hat to cover his moderate length red hair. His eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Banker born in the past three hundred years. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: Gifted from a young age, Himo studied abroad. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

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

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, PTSD. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 2000 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2400 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (600 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1100 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (30 gp).