Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He has the majority of his body covered in plate. He wears his blonde hair down. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: Born in the south to a Detective, Eberk learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: To be a Shoemaker again; and balancing his hectic life and new detective responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Enemies, Job, Religious. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears tattered old clothes. His orange fur is drawn into a tight pony tail with a butterfly scrunchie. His hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: To protect his home; and to clean up the streets

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Guardian. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 600 gp. Alexandrite (1400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This southern man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His clothes are grease stained in places. He sports a flattop hair cut. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines violet.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Marshal hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 1000 pp. Red-brown spinel (140 gp). White opal (700 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This fat western woman has a bulbous nose and dresses like a well dressed Barrister does. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. She has moderate length white hair. Her eyes are brown.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. A true patriot, Adrie would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: Born in the west to a Barrister, Adrie learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. A gifted student she started as a Interpreter, but she got bored and became a Barrister. She has taken up work as a Barrister and fed both sides of the war false information with the goal of increasing casualties.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, PTSD. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a grey coat. With a patchy black beard and wild black hair. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He takes great joy in being the best Blacksmith in town.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. Nalral was born on a far southern desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Blacksmith. He tends to his Blacksmith job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Job, Religious. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 310 gp.

Description: She has a missing right leg. She wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. She wears a top hat to hide her balding. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: The child of a Map Maker, who enjoyed hunting, Helja was taken on many hunting expeditions. While she appears to be a normal Dwarf, 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 remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Flaws: Ugly, Selfish, Insane. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears a brown costume with the symbols of death on his torso. His auburn hair is thinning but still full. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. He has never given up on his poetry dream.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 500 gp. White opal (600 gp). Chrysoberyl (80 gp). Banded agate (14 gp). Citrine (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This eastern man is abnormally tall. He dresses in yellow turtlenecks beneath a tan coat with white slacks. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His golden hair, when down, is lengthy. His hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Ruler arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious, Rich. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 200 gp. Onyx (30 gp). Freshwater pearl (15 gp). Azurite (15 gp). Lapis lazuli (15 gp).

Description: With grey face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears a simple red robe with tan stripes complete with hood. Her red hair is braided into rings. Her eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: A powerful slaver made her what she is. In her 16th year, her parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Stacee alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To end her boredom; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Enemies. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 400 gp. Sapphire pendant on gold chain (700 gp). A small bag of saffron. (40 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1500 gp).