Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she is dressed in earthy colors with a yellow and white handkerchief worn on her right side. She has done her best to style her golden hair to look like a famous performer. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Born in the south to a Body Guard, Hugolina learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. A gifted student she started as a Priest, but she got bored and became a Body Guard. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist, Justice. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: Malachite (4 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky man dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He wears his auburn hair up in a very large beehive style do. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Joser is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Halfling conditions. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Half-Elven compassion.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Depressed, Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears a green cloak and cross-gartered tan stockings. She has moderate length purple hair. Her black eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Her divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. After a long history of fighting, Nemeia and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Detective responsibilities is difficult; and to protect her home

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Guardian, Job. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: This man stands a little under 6'6" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. 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 black crest is thinning but still full. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Family, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 100 gp. Deep green spinel (80 gp).

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears brown robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a shortspear, but if one is not available he will default to his morningstar. His auburn hair has been sun bleached extensively. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Humans in the north were limited. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He wears his white fur down. His eyes are likewise copper.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: He was born into a rich family. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. 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: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 8000 cp.

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. His hair is chestnut and curly. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: He was born into a rich family. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Fighting. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 80 gp. Jet (160 gp).

Description: He is a husky man, who is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His black hair is knotted and matted. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Paggen was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Gifted, Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Nature. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she has the majority of her body covered in plate. She wears a deerstalker hat to cover her moderate length silver crest. Her eyes are likewise red. Her teeth are white and perfect.

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 misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Jheri fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she wants to get laid

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 150 gp.