Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She has the majority of her body covered in plate. She has styled her white hair well, parting it to the left. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Aym embodies much of what other species detest in the Tieflings. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. While she appears to be a normal Tiefling, 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 was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she's in love

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic, Shy. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: She is a pot bellied southern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her bastard sword with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her black hair is wavy and long. Her eyes are blue and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Detective profession.

History: Herleva hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Herleva was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She tends to her Body Guard job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Enemies, Military. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork Heavy wooden shield.

Description: This malnourished woman wears light armors faded through time and improper care. She wears a Stetson hat to hide her balding. Her fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this southern gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She got into the Slave Trader business at a young age. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Expand her business; and balancing her hectic life and new slave trader responsibilities is difficult

Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Religious, Job. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 5'0" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His hair is white and very short. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. He also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: A powerful slaver made him what he is. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and he wants to get laid

Ideals: Philantrophist, Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Nature. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 30 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This man wears brown leather gloves, a brown jacket, and tight pants. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. He has no hair. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. His parents enrolled him in a Commoner school at a young age so that he could practice his martial talents. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, Disease. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 1600 gp.

Description: This woman stands a little under 3'2" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. She has a very tight haircut. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She thrives on attention. She does whatever is in her power to gain the attention of whomever she deems a fit date. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: She was born at the edge of vast island. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature longsword.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break.

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Adventurer, Attractive, Nature, In love. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 20000 sp.

Description: He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His tied-back hair is white. His amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He has a good heart but also a terrible temper. He will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Gerbo lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Gerbo has worked very hard to control his curse. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: He made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Family, Debt. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Everburning torch. 4 Smokesticks.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears brown robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a scimitar, but if one is not available he will default to his morningstar. His white hair is lengthy. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: Vonbin is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Barkeep hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Vonbin fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Extrovert, Entrepeneur, Fighting. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 1000 gp. Moss agate (13 gp). Lapis lazuli (13 gp). Alexandrite (1600 gp). Jet (150 gp). Aquamarine (1600 gp). Red garnet (150 gp). Amethyst (150 gp).

Description: She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. Her long green crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines red.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. 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: Vezera was born the youngest of three triplets. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Crown-heir hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. Being a Crown-heir 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: Doesn't want to be a Crown-heir and was forced into it by her family.

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Family, Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 80 pp. Finely wrought small gold bracelet (50 gp). Solid gold idol (800 gp). 1 Minor magic item.