Description: He prefers to wear flannel, and he perpetually has his greatsword ready. His brown hair is singed and shortened. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. He moved out west to avoid the crime he committed. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 2300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is lean but muscular and prefers to wear flannel. Her hair is short and purple. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Like her father and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Seamstress. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Seamstress.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and balancing her hectic life and new seamstress responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: She is renowned for her bright brown dresses and hats. She sports auburn long hair. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. She pushes her goals aggressively. She is also a coward if confronted.

History: Sannl was born with her father's beautiful face. Her first spouse was a Interpreter, they had one son, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She has recently attracted an admirer that believes she's playing hard to get.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things; and regain custody of her son

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Fearful, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Has a crush. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He stands about 5'1" and typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep green leather and dull pastel iron scale mail. His left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His white hair is knotted and matted. His silver eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Iados hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Dragonborn companion (his 'brother'). Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 1400 gp. Blue quartz (9 gp). Red spinel (130 gp). Rock crystal (50 gp).

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty blue coat over it. She wears a feathered hat to cover her moderate length auburn hair. She is baby faced.

Personality: She hates gnolls. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: She was born into a rich family. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

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

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: Aquamarine (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This northern man is well dressed, constantly wearing a green suit, pastel shirt, and red tie. His clothes are grease stained in places. His crest is cut close to his head. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Detective profession.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the south. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Armorer for the past few years.

Motivation: To be a Detective again.

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 130 pp. Malachite (8 gp). Aquamarine (500 gp). Lapis lazuli (8 gp). Azurite (8 gp). Azurite (8 gp). Star ruby (1000 gp). Eye agate (8 gp).

Description: This slender man stands about 3'2". He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. He has a golden handlebar mustache and slicked back golden hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Painter business.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of specialists.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 500 gp. Iolite (80 gp). Amethyst (50 gp). Rose (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man wears a violet collared shirt and blue pants. He accessorizes with a black scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized topaz on his left hand. His red hair, when down, is lengthy. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Flaws: Insane, Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: Eye agate (11 gp). Silver pearl (90 gp). Violet garnet (500 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 5'2" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He dresses well, wearing blue shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. His tied-back hair is blonde. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Mindartis was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He bought a ceremonial dagger and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Mentor. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

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