Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a simple violet robe with black stripes complete with hood. His brown hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His skin is flawless and his violet eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Blacksmith profession.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Manfred liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Map Maker for the past few years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and to be a blacksmith again

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Nature. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This woman is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright violet and black, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her silver hair is long and unkept. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Born in the east to a Stableman, Isabella learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Stableman work with an outfit from a few towns over. Stableman work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 14 years.

Motivation: She is greedy; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, she wears yellow painted combat armor at almost all times. She sports white long hair. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: Joan speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. She works hard and plays hard.

History: Joan was born in the north. At a young age she loved to build and create. Her mother was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, she put together a working one.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her.

Ideals: Impeccable, Persistence. Flaws: Hedonist. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: This late middle aged man wears a worn and beaten armor and is in decent physical shape. His auburn hair is cut short. He has hazel eyes and a brown hat with a black feather.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Dwarf in existence. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. In the meantime he has taken over work as a Armorer and occasionally as a mercenary.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Job, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He wears a colorful flower in his chestnut hair. His hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

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 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: Regain custody of his son; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears an entirely grey suit with black socks and a vest with buckled shoes. With bright blonde hair and a scraggly beard. He has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his mother. A gifted student he started as a Dyer, but he got bored and became a Stableman. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 5 years.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Family. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 100 pp.

Description: She is wearing a long, black cloak. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. She wears her chestnut hair up. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Rich. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep brown leather and dull tan iron scale mail. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy white hair. His gray eyes peer out from beneath his feathered brown hat.

Personality: He is mildly Dwarf supremacist, though he does not identify as such. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: Born in the north to a Detective, Travok learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. Travok 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. Travok 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 would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Detective responsibilities is difficult; and a strong sense of loyalty to half-orc people

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Racist, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged man dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His crest is cut close to his head. He has gleaming, smiling red eyes.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. He is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: Hirrathak lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. 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. Some 4 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Hirrathak never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 4000 cp.