Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she is wearing a long, blue, dusty cloak. She wears her black hair up in a very large beehive style do. She has a dull look in her gray eyes.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Yebe lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Map Maker they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Sculptor, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: She made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Passionate, Logical, Athletic. Bonds: Family, Debt. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 1100 gp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy brass crest. He tends to wear a green poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He has a hunchback. His brass crest is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His fierce gold eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He was born in the west. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the desert to a summer home near a large cave. He would wander through that large cave and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the desert due to the painful memories there. Greethen took refuge in the large cave and found the beat up falchion and armor he uses now. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 900 gp. Rose (50 gp). Blue star sapphire (700 gp). Black star sapphire (700 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (12 gp). Rich purple corundum (700 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1000 gp). Golden pearl (100 gp). Freshwater pearl (12 gp).

Description: This slender woman stands about 5'8". She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with wide-brimmed hat. She has purple hair. Her eyes are likewise red. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. 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: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when giants swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. In her 16th year, her parents were killed by a giants raid, leaving Vepar alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and she wants revenge against giants

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 800 sp. 4 Antitoxin. 2 Smokesticks. 1 Everburning torch.

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. His crest is bronze and very short. His ears are large.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. After coming to the age of reason, Quarethon took it upon himself to study the arcane arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He was granted arcane powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 15000 sp.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy red stubble. She wears suspenders and green workpants. Her shirt is violet, and she wears a heavy green leather apron most of the time. She has a hunchback. Her red hair is lengthy. Her eyes are red and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Vepar is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Vepar was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. She has worked as a Beggar like her mother before her.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Opinionated, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned woman, she dresses well, wearing grey shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. Her auburn hair is lengthy. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Gifted from a young age, Sybil studied abroad. Sybil was born on a far eastern desert where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Bricklayer. She was granted martial powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and she desires to right it; and revenge

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears a white deerstalker hat and white clothes. Her brown hair is braided into rings. This amber eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Thea hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her writing career. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Detective profession.

History: Thea lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family, Mentor, Rich. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 100 gp. Peridot (80 gp). Amethyst (150 gp). Smoky quartz (80 gp). 1 Backpack.