Description: 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 red hair is still thick. His white eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. 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: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Because his mother participated in the massacre of their homeland, illithids burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. He was preparing to flee to the west, but the outbreak of war prevented him and his father from journeying west to reunite his family. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Enemies, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: He wears tattered old clothes. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly rapiers and ceremonial daggers. His crest is short and bronze. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gold eyes.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Detective business.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. Kerkad was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Kerkad decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Philantrophist, Persistence, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: She wears a violet armored body suit, with a simple brown line shooting up and back down. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly longswords and daggers. Her chestnut hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Her family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. She saw this and took pride in her father's willingness to do anything to win. Being a Brewer 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: A rival would like her out of the picture; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic, Selfish. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. Her red hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. She has amber eyes.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She was born at the edge of vast forest. Through the years after Urshar was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Urshar's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Disease, Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 150 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. She has moderate length lavender fur. Her yellow eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. She has all her life been fascinated with painting.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Spring was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Spring liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She has never given up on her painting dream.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Passionate, Artistic. Bonds: Poor, Mentor, Nature. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her tied-back hair is white. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She fancies herself a trickster and likes to rely on her wits to carry the day. She cares for her older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: To unite with her sister.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 800 sp. Obsidian (6 gp).

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 5'4" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears many layers of old clothing at all times. She has wavy white hair. Her violet eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: Born in the south her family was never financially stable. While she appears to be a normal Human, 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. After a long history of fighting, Aline and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive, Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: A 4'10" southern woman, she wears dark leathers with embroidery. She keeps her red hair in a flapper bob. Her eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: Ahinar was raised in a hard working conservative environment. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Seamstress. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and expand her business

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Job, Guardian. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He keeps his auburn hair in a pixie cut. He has violet eyes and a violet hat with a pastel feather.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered dancing. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Military. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 100 gp.