Description: He is scrawny and has patchy chestnut stubble. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He has a hunchback. He has a chestnut handlebar mustache and slicked back chestnut hair. His eyes are green.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Tordek was born into a poor family. Growing up, he dreamt of becoming a Cleric, to bring honor to his family’s name. When he came of age, he applied for a position with his town's local guard, looking to work his way up via merit and eventually become a Cleric in service of a powerful lord somewhere. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears a tan costume with the symbols of the sun god on his torso. His brown hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a cross scrunchie. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Family. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a husky woman, who wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with white colored cloaks and clothing. Her blonde hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of giants may trigger it at times.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to giants demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 800 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Solid gold idol (1100 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (600 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (100 gp). Solid gold idol (1100 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. Her green crest is singed and shortened. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She refers to her adoptive father 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: When she was but 3 years old her parents immigrated from the south. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Dragonborns in the south were limited. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 3000 gp. Silver pearl (120 gp).

Description: This tall, slender woman wears many layers of old clothing at all times. She has done her best to style her brass crest to look like a famous performer. Her eyes are red and catlike.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Carter. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Carter for the past few years.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 1900 sp. Solid gold idol (500 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp). A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (10 gp).

Description: He tends to wear a large red jacket. He is portly but not overly obese. His moppish black hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His half smiles and blue eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Vlorn was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Sensitive, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears dark leathers with embroidery. With bright silver hair. Her amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. She is an amazing painter.

History: Ahinar lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. While she appears to be a normal Elf, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and doesn't want to be a server and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane, Insomniac. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Server

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 2700 sp.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His hair, while still mostly chestnut, has prominent grey streaks. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Detective profession.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. In his 14th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Insane, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Job, Religious, Family. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left leg, she has a large red mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her violet robe. She sports a flattop hair cut. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She was born in a small plains village. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and she's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Nature. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 900 gp. 1 Minor magic item.