Description: This fat eastern woman has a bulbous nose and wears a grey tunic with brown highlights, and long yellow pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She is baby faced.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Guard work with an outfit from a few towns over. Guard work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 4 years.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and balancing her hectic life and new guard responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Military, Job, Family. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 800 pp. A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (80 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (80 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (160 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (2000 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (800 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (900 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1600 gp). Solid gold idol (800 gp). Gold and ruby ring (3000 gp). Jeweled anklet (4000 gp).

Description: She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with green lining and desert motifs. She has no crest. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She takes great joy in being the best Detective in town.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Detective arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She's also a talented Barkeep, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Addict. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 7000 gp. Red-brown spinel (80 gp). Jasper (40 gp). Black opal (500 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). Golden pearl (80 gp). Rhodochrosite (15 gp). Onyx (40 gp). Blue sapphire (500 gp). Chrysoprase (40 gp). Deep green spinel (80 gp). Pink pearl (80 gp). Brown-green garnet (80 gp). Moss agate (15 gp). Freshwater pearl (15 gp). Emerald (500 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). Obsidian (15 gp). Onyx (40 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is dressed in earthy colors with a yellow and black handkerchief worn on his left side. He keeps his blonde hair in a flapper bob. His violet eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Everard was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Mundane, Shy, Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Military. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 2000 gp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He sports grey clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. He keeps his black hair in a pixie cut. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady brown eyes.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Family, Military. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 7000 gp. Pink pearl (90 gp). Amber (90 gp). Blue quartz (10 gp). Lapis lazuli (10 gp). Sardonyx (60 gp). Peridot (60 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Chalcedony (60 gp). Moonstone (60 gp). Eye agate (10 gp). Red spinel (90 gp). Deep green spinel (90 gp). Sardonyx (60 gp).

Description: She wears tattered old clothes. She is portly but not overly obese. Her blonde hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. 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 been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Guardian, Mentor. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 5000 gp. Golden circlet with four aquamarines (4000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (50 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (4000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (50 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (900 gp). Gold music box (3000 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft violet waves gently in the breeze. Her brass crest is smooth and relatively long. Her gold unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. She has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Rezena was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever she goes.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Flaws: Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 900 pp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (140 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (4000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1900 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1900 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (5000 gp). Gold music box (4000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (400 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (50 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (140 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 4'2" when asserting himself. He wears his silver hair down. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. The war was a terrible time for him, and Fargrim does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. When Fargrim reached his early adolescence his Dwarf father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and he feels kind of lost in life

Flaws: Greedy, Depressed, Disease. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 6000 gp. Jet (40 gp). Hematite (5 gp). Freshwater pearl (5 gp). Jade (40 gp).