Description: He is in excellent shape and is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright black and pastel, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His chestnut hair is singed and shortened. His eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 70 pp.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears yellow leather gloves, a yellow jacket, and tight pants. She has a long black ponytail with little hanging trinkets. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. Being a Barber kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears brown trousers with black and white striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. His black fur is greasy and uncared for. His eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Born to a Spy, his mother struggled to pay the bills. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Detective responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 400 gp. Chrysoberyl (110 gp).

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide his balding. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: He got into the Stableman business at a young age. He moved out north to avoid the crime he committed. He struck the Stableman job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 8000 sp. Alexandrite (800 gp). Lapis lazuli (16 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a fancy blue dress. She carries with her a set of morningstars, each one with a emerald on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her tied-back hair is brown. Her eyes are a pleasant amber.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. She cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: When she was but 6 years old her parents immigrated from the west. In her 12th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 300 pp. A delicate brass dragon egg (40 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1500 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (2000 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (1000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. Her chestnut hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. This brown eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Sarah hails from a village terrorized by drow. In her 13th year, her parents were killed by a drow raid, leaving Sarah alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She has dedicated herself to building a better world.

Motivation: She wants revenge against drow.

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He is dressed in earthy colors with a pastel and brown handkerchief worn on his left side. His fur is black, silky, and of moderate length. He has yellow eyes and a pastel hat with a brown feather.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. 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: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and he loathes his own lifestyle

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 1000 gp. Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1100 gp). Jeweled anklet (2000 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (800 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (90 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (4000 gp). 1 Medium magic item.