Description: He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Blacksmith. He carries a battered greataxe and tarnished spear as well. His black hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His ears are large.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Ûgakûga has worked very hard to control his curse. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Family, Nature. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 90 gp. Coral (150 gp).

Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She is typically in her Detective uniform. Her top hat is riddled with cuts and holes. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: Agnes lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. A freak accident while working with her Painter father left her crippled. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father; and regain custody of her daughter

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Job, Religious, Family. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 2700 sp.

Description: Her right side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She is wearing a long, black cloak. Her crest is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her red eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is witty, but her monotone delivery comes off as unnerving She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Kava was raised in a hard working conservative environment. In her 15th year, her parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Kava alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Joker, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 80 gp. Jet (80 gp).

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears a robe, a symbol of death around her neck, and a quarterstaff on her belt. Her gray fur is still thick. She has hazel eyes and a brown hat with a tan feather.

Personality: Gale is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Fighting, Extrovert, Professionalism, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: 3'8" and muscular, this southern man is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His hair is blonde and very short. His green eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. On top of that he is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to his employer will always come first he doesn't like to hit women.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Paggen grew up listening to his mother's many stories. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father 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. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His hair is long and golden with streaks of brown, and is pulled back with small tan clips. His beard is brown, braided, and well cared for. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While he appears to be a normal Elf, 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 routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Disciplined, Professionalism, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 8000 cp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: 5'8" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She wears an entirely brown suit with tan socks and a vest with buckled shoes. With bright red hair. Her half smiles and green eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She takes great joy in being the best Guard in town.

History: Born in the west to a Guard, Sarah learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Guard for the past few years.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and expand her business

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Slave. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 3000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A stocky darker skinned woman, she wears dark leathers with embroidery. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide her balding. Her hazel eyes peer out from beneath her wide-brimmed tan hat.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Mortician business.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She's also a talented Masseuse, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Nature, Job, Slave. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This southern man is abnormally tall. He wears skinny pants and wears a tan and grey robe with the hood down. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He has no hair. His hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: The child of a Barkeep, who enjoyed hunting, Gerbo was taken on many hunting expeditions. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the mountains to a summer home near a ruined castle. He would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the mountains due to the painful memories there. Gerbo took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up nunchaku and armor he uses now. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he seems to be bored by most things

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 20 pp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (700 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp).