Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, he prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. His orange fur is knotted and matted. His hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: This man loves music and to teach people music more than just about anything. He has all his life been fascinated with music.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Spice Merchant arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He dropped out of school to support his sick father, and resented it. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and to unite with his brother

Ideals: Artistic, Logical. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 1400 gp.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears blue trousers with green and blue striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. Her golden hair has been sun bleached extensively. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: When she was but 6 years old her parents immigrated from the south. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature, Family. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 160 pp. Blue quartz (8 gp). Citrine (40 gp). Peridot (40 gp). Azurite (8 gp). Rock crystal (40 gp). Rose (40 gp). Black pearl (700 gp). Bloodstone (40 gp). Violet garnet (700 gp).

Description: He has the majority of his body covered in plate. With bright white hair and a scraggly beard. His brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. 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: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: This tall, slender woman is wearing a long, white, dusty cloak. Her silver hair is cut short. Her brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from her. She is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Halfling in existence. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Jasmine lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Ostracized due to the druidic powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Halflings became a terror of the countryside. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Detective and was forced into it by her family; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Justice, Gifted, Philantrophist. Bonds: Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: Golden yellow topaz (700 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). Iolite (40 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). Black pearl (700 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (4 gp). Violet garnet (700 gp).