Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. She wears dark leathers with embroidery, marred by sweets. Her brown hair is braided into rings. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She hates giants. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her poetry with anyone who is interested.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Guard arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Being born in the north, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the north for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way west. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Family, Rich. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 7000 gp. Sard (60 gp). Deep blue spinel (1200 gp). Hematite (6 gp).

Description: She wears a red costume with the symbols of magic on her torso. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. She keeps her red hair in a pixie cut. Her amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, she's a very lovable idiot. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by illithids. Lavinia was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 2000 gp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (600 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1000 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (30 gp). A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (30 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (800 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (600 gp). Jeweled anklet (3000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1000 gp). Solid gold idol (1000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1000 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (30 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (900 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (120 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1000 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2200 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (800 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His golden hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. When Borun reached his early adolescence his Halfling 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 used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 400 pp. Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp). Deep blue spinel (1400 gp). Deep green spinel (60 gp). Black pearl (1400 gp). Sardonyx (20 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1400 gp). Hematite (13 gp). Red-brown spinel (60 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp). Blue star sapphire (1400 gp).

Description: He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 6'2" when asserting himself. He keeps his copper crest in a pixie cut. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his gold eyes.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his mother. Pandjed was born on a far northern mountains where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Mayor. Some 5 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Pandjed never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: To be a Butcher again; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job, Immigrant, In love. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 1100 pp. Chrysoberyl (120 gp). Alexandrite (400 gp). Red-brown spinel (120 gp). Red spinel (120 gp). Black pearl (400 gp). Red-brown spinel (120 gp). Sard (40 gp). Black pearl (400 gp). Brown-green garnet (120 gp). Chrysoprase (40 gp). Sard (40 gp). Black pearl (400 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). Pink pearl (120 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has no hair. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Gruk is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Merchant arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and retire the richest man in the south

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 2000 gp. Banded agate (4 gp). Iolite (80 gp). Black pearl (200 gp). Carnelian (80 gp). Pink pearl (80 gp). Blue quartz (4 gp). Jasper (80 gp). Moss agate (4 gp). Rhodochrosite (4 gp). Blue sapphire (1200 gp). Hematite (4 gp). Golden yellow topaz (200 gp). Rich purple corundum (1200 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (4 gp). Obsidian (4 gp). Rhodochrosite (4 gp). Blue star sapphire (1200 gp). Rock crystal (80 gp). White opal (1200 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Golden yellow topaz (200 gp). Star ruby (1200 gp). Freshwater pearl (4 gp). White opal (1200 gp).

Description: He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His blonde hair is thinning but still full. His violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Detective born in the past three hundred years. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: He got into the Detective business at a young age. While he appears to be a normal Human, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Flaws: Addict, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 3000 gp. Violet garnet (200 gp). Onyx (60 gp). Onyx (60 gp). Chrysoberyl (70 gp). Onyx (60 gp). Blue sapphire (900 gp). Sard (60 gp). Blue star sapphire (900 gp). Onyx (60 gp). Sardonyx (60 gp). Black pearl (200 gp). Moonstone (60 gp). Red-brown spinel (70 gp). Malachite (11 gp). Golden yellow topaz (200 gp). Star rose quartz (60 gp). Red garnet (70 gp). Malachite (11 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This southern man is abnormally tall. He wears baggy black pantaloons and a yellow scarf. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His crest is red, silky, and of moderate length. His eyes are likewise red. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. 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 uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and money/treasure

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 800 pp. Star rose quartz (50 gp). Chrysoberyl (70 gp). Chrysoberyl (70 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Tourmaline (70 gp). Red spinel (70 gp). Red garnet (70 gp). Chalcedony (50 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp). Brown-green garnet (70 gp). 1 Medium magic item.