Description: He is lean but muscular and wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His black hair is lengthy. His eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and regain custody of his son

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Insane, Addict. Bonds: Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 260 gp.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He is renowned for his bright black suits and hats. He has done his best to style his silver crest to look like a famous performer. This gold eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Detective arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 1100 sp.

Description: This woman stands a little under 6'6" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her crest is gold and curly. Her eyes are red and beady.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Immigrant. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: He wears suspenders and white workpants. His shirt is brown, and he wears a heavy white leather apron most of the time, and he perpetually has his hammer ready. His hair is cut close to his head. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Silvo 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 spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Halfling artifacts is his passion; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Fighting, Extrovert. Bonds: Adventurer, Nature, Attractive. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his bastard sword with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His hair is short and white. His fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. While he appears to be a normal Halfling, 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 never given up on his poetry dream.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 80 gp.