Description: This man is tall and muscular. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. With bright brown hair and a scraggly beard. His ears are large.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Nature. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: A stocky darker skinned woman, she typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep white leather and dull brown iron scale mail. Her hair is short and blonde. She is baby faced.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Detective. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it; and balancing her hectic life and new detective responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Fearful, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 210 gp.

Description: She wears silk and lounges about seductively. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly longswords and hand crossbows. Her hair is white and very short. She is baby faced.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: She was born in the south, but her parents moved at a very young age to the west. Astaro was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Astaro decided she wanted neither the life of her father nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a tan coat, and a wedding ring on her left hand. Her long red hair reaches down to her waist. Her eyes are likewise green. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: She comes from a rich eastern family. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: In love, Rich. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he has a large grey mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his black robe. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover his moderate length chestnut hair. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. 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 now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and balancing his hectic life and new stylist responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 160 gp. Chrysoprase (30 gp).