Description: She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. Her fur is orange and curly. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Shadow is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

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 taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs; and she is greedy

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Rich, Slave. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 100 gp. Obsidian (9 gp). Onyx (20 gp).

Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. She prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady, marred by sweets. She wears a broad hat to cover her moderate length black hair. Her brown eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She hates Humans with a passion. As such she is filled with self loathing. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Avelina was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Avelina was born on a far northern mountains where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Ploughman. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 500 sp. Banded agate (5 gp).

Description: This malnourished man wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. His moppish golden hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: His divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Ostracized due to the divine powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Gnomes became a terror of the countryside. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Tabaxi compassion.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: American accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This slender man stands about 6'9". He wears a simple pastel robe with brown stripes complete with hood. His red fur is lengthy. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He is a great chef.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. While he appears to be a normal Tabaxi, 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. After a long history of fighting, Shadow and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic, Insane. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He prefers to wear black pants and tee shirts. He has done his best to style his blue hair to look like a famous performer. This red eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. As he has aged he has sought to do reparations for his actions as a youth. He is also making sure that his compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His childhood dream was to be a Banker, but he was a colossal failure. He has worked as a Engraver like his father before him.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His black hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep green.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. Gimgen is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. The family's rival house kidnapped his sister with the intent that his sister marry their son to gain control of contested properties. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Architect they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Banker, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and wants to raise his children well

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Family, Slave. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She is lean but muscular and is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. Her brown fur is braided into rings. Her amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

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. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when orcs swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to orcs demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Many orcs want her driven away.

Flaws: Disease, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with top hat. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her brown hair is lengthy. Her eyes are likewise violet. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: She was born in the south, but her parents moved at a very young age to the west. Marigold abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She struck the Sellsword job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Sellsword responsibilities is difficult; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a black vest and prefers brown and white shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His silver crest is braided into rings. His red eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. He has all his life been fascinated with writing.

History: He was raised in a forest tribe. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He bought a hand crossbow and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Knight and was forced into it by his family; and money/treasure

Ideals: Pacifist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: In love, Nature. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 4000 cp. Red-brown spinel (60 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.