Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. Her brown hair is long and unkept. Her green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Callybon is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. 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: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Extrovert, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Forgetful. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: She wears a violet costume with the symbols of her god on her torso, and she perpetually has her warhammer ready. With wild chestnut hair. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. Sariel is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her sisters into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Being born in the north, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the north for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way east. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent mother; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Religious. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 100 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). 1 Smokesticks. 1 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he is wearing a long, white cloak. His chestnut hair is smooth and relatively long. His blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

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 however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. A gifted student he started as a Weaver, but he got bored and became a Detective. In the meantime he has taken over work as a Detective and occasionally as a mercenary.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and balancing his hectic life and new detective responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. Her hair is long and blonde with streaks of auburn, and is pulled back with small brown clips. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: Thodris was born in the north. At a young age she loved to build and create. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and she wants revenge against dire rats

Ideals: Disciplined, Entrepeneur, Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears a brown cloak and cross-gartered green stockings. She has wavy white hair. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dwarves became a terror of the countryside. After a long history of fighting, Valida and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 400 sp.