Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears a tan tunic with white highlights, and long blue pants that bunch up around his shoes. His white hair is cut short. His half smiles and violet eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is a Mortician first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears a worn and beaten armor. His hair is blonde, silky, and of moderate length. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. 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, Arnold is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born into a rich family. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Justice. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 70 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears yellow painted combat armor at almost all times. His hair is black, silky, and of moderate length. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. He also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. He uses divination through singing.

History: Thomas was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. Ostracized due to the martial powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Half-Elves became a terror of the countryside. He was granted martial powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His Stetson hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines amber.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Gimgen lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Jeweler they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Spice Merchant, and he later adopted a second daughter.

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

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He is wearing a long, black cloak. He has brown hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Born in the east to a Layabout, Akoth learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Layabout hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Layabout for the past few years.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Disciplined, Joker, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Poor. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 360 gp. Lapis lazuli (7 gp). Jasper (20 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. He sports a flattop hair cut. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: This man loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Heward grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Heward. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Artistic, Impeccable. Bonds: Criminal record, Military, Family. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: Sardonyx (50 gp).

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears a worn and beaten armor. Sporting a blonde mohawk this woman's hair draws a lot of attention. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her blue eyes.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Detective arts, while her father 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 left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Flaws: Shy, Selfish. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. His silver hair is heavily combed to the left. His gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Akoth was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: To be a Banker again.

Ideals: Impeccable, Joker. Bonds: Poor, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears dark leathers with embroidery. His brown hair is singed and shortened. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are amber.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. Through the years after Zunn was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Zunn 's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Disciplined, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 130 gp. 1 Climber’s kit.