Description: He wears tattered old clothes. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly rapiers and ceremonial daggers. His crest is short and bronze. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gold eyes.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Detective business.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. Kerkad 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. Kerkad 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 now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Philantrophist, Persistence, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears a red vest and prefers pastel and white shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His hair is long and auburn with streaks of brown, and is pulled back with small red clips. His beard is brown, braided, and well cared for. He has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Burto hails from a village terrorized by orcs. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and a deep hatred of orcs

Flaws: Ugly, Selfish, Insomniac. Bonds: Enemies, Family. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 2000 sp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. Her beige fur is unkempt and raggedy. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady hazel eyes.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She has recently attracted an admirer that believes she's playing hard to get.

Motivation: To settle down with her crush; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Has a crush, Job. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing white cape and mantle trimmed with soft green waves gently in the breeze. His hair is brown and curly. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He has achieved small success as a Butcher.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and he is greedy

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 3000 cp. 1 Holy water.

Description: This malnourished woman dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. Her chestnut hair is long and unkept. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Born to a Mortician, her mother struggled to pay the bills. Her parents were killed by illithids in a raid when she was still a young child. The illithids captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Revenge.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. Her golden hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a cross scrunchie. She has a dull look in her hazel eyes.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Tiaathque hails from a village terrorized by goblins. Through the years after Tiaathque was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Tiaathque's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. Some 10 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Tiaathque never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and she feels threatened by others

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Enemies, In love. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 4000 cp. 1 Masterwork Musical instrument.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Elf, and stands approximately 5'1". He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat, and his gloved hand is found clutching a lance. He has shaved his head bald. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Mortician and was forced into it by his family; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Hedonist, Insomniac. Bonds: Religious, Family. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: This late middle aged man wears just a brown suit and is in decent physical shape. His tied-back hair is blonde. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are amber.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Raymond grew up listening to his mother's many stories. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He bought a rapier and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Halfling people; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Antagonistic, Racist. Bonds: Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: He wears a robe, a symbol of luck around his neck, and a longbow on his belt. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His auburn hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. Naal enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. 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: He is greedy.

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 110 gp.