Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). She wears a Stetson hat to hide her balding. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is a Performer first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. 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: To find somewhere to settle down; and balancing her hectic life and new performer responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 90 gp. Tourmaline (100 gp).

Description: He is a pot bellied southern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He has wavy red hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: He was born at the edge of vast desert. 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 routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined, Logical. Flaws: Insomniac, Fearful. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He prefers to wear flannel. His long black crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes are gold.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 53. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Doctor arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Kerkad grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Kerkad. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions.

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 900 sp. Blue star sapphire (600 gp). Coral (140 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp).

Description: 5'6" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He keeps his white fur in a flapper bob. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Detective. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Jade was born with his father's beautiful face. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears a white cloak and cross-gartered tan stockings. With a patchy auburn beard and wild auburn hair. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady brown eyes.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Emotional, Mundane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 70 gp.