Description: She very much looks the part of a Spice Merchant. She is physically well-built. With bright red hair. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Ella will drive conversation. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Spice Merchant arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her family was turned out during the war. She and her family wandered north to less war torn lands. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Spice Merchant responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Extrovert, Logical. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 30000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Halfling, and stands approximately 3'4". He wears light armors faded through time and improper care, and his gloved hand is found clutching a flail. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He uses divination through singing.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He is content; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 120 pp.

Description: He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He keeps his red hair in a flapper bob. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Detective business.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and expand his business

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: She is an average looking western female in her early mid-life. She tends to wear a brown poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her gray fur is singed and shortened. Her blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: Born in the west her family was never financially stable. Sweet liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She became a Fortune-teller soon after.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Poor, Nature. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 400 gp. Banded agate (12 gp). Sardonyx (50 gp). Jade (90 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. He carries with him a set of shortbows on his belt, each one with a opal on the hilt. His hair is blonde and curly. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He uses divination through singing.

History: Born in the north his family was never financially stable. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Oren 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 Oren. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Oren fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 50000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.