Description: Runty and weak-looking, she is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: This woman loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She got into the Detective business at a young age. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Detective for hire.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Job. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: This western woman wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her clothes are grease stained in places. She has shaved her head bald. Her violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Irann is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Elves in the west were limited. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and she feels kind of lost in life

Flaws: Disease, Depressed, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 290 gp.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears a violet cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. He has a red handlebar mustache and slicked back red hair. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. 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, Varis is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He got into the Farmer business at a young age. He worked as a nervous Farmer and found it very stressful. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he is greedy

Ideals: Justice, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 250 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His brown hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. He has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Passionate, Artistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 310 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears suspenders and brown workpants. His shirt is grey, and he wears a heavy brown leather apron most of the time. His long golden hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Uraim was raised in a hard working conservative environment. His childhood dream was to be a Crown-heir, but he was a colossal failure. He has taken up work as a Sculptor and fed both sides of the war false information with the goal of increasing casualties.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and many goblins want him driven away

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Terse, PTSD. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 20 gp. Rock crystal (60 gp).

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Born to a Mason, his mother struggled to pay the bills. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer, Poor, Family. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged man is dressed in a clean black cloak covering his clean studded leather, and a wedding ring on his right hand. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide his balding. His gold eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He has since married many spouses, only to have them die. He claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: In love, Rich, Slave. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: He wears black leather gloves, a black jacket, and tight pants. His broad hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He has a dull look in his white eyes.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. 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: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when gnolls swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. A freak accident while working with his Marshal mother left him crippled. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He wants revenge against gnolls; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 20 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: She wears a simple blue robe with grey stripes complete with hood. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. Her white hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her eyes are likewise violet. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. She graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. She advanced relatively quickly due to her good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful, Mundane. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 50 gp. Azurite (13 gp).