Description: She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her crossbow with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her crossbow, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a rose on it. She keeps her long silver hair kept up in a rat tail. Her eyes are likewise gray. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Detective arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her childhood dream was to be a Actor, but she was a colossal failure. She has worked as a Detective like her father before her.

Motivation: She is greedy; and balancing her hectic life and new detective responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 2100 sp.

Description: This woman prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized jet on her left hand. Her silver hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep hazel.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: Her arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She worked as a nervous Bowyer and found it very stressful. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Bowyer for the past few years.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and to protect her home

Ideals: Optimist, Logical, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Job, Guardian. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 330 gp.

Description: He likes to wear tan tank tops with brown pants, and carries rapiers. He has styled his red hair well, parting it to the left. His eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Ploughman arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. 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 has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined, Opinionated, Gifted. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 30 gp. 1 Antitoxin.

Description: He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress), and carries halberds. His silver hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His eyes are a pleasant violet.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Sapply hails from a village terrorized by giants. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to giants demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and he wants revenge against giants

Ideals: Fighting, Opinionated, Athletic. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 230 gp.

Description: She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 5'0" when asserting herself. Her hair, while still mostly blonde, has prominent grey streaks. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is a Barkeep first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: Ermina was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Sorcerer, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Sorcerer in service of a powerful lord somewhere. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She came across an abandoned tomb where she found a relic that called out to her. After picking it up she was cursed by unlife.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality.

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Job, Slave, Adventurer. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears long strands of jet and short black dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. Sporting a chestnut mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. His violet eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: He was born in the north. At a young age his mother died while driving off some orcs. His father being the stubborn sort decided to stay and helped train him in glaive use. 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 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 a deep hatred of orcs

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is wearing a long, pastel, dusty cloak. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His fur is short and red. His amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Rich. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears many layers of old clothing at all times. He wears his brown hair down. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To unite with his brother.

Flaws: Ugly, Cynical. Bonds: Poor, Family, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes., and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her hair is black and very short. Her eyes are green and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Half-Elves.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: To protect her home; and halfling compassion

Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Guardian, Nature. Occupation: Cook

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 1000 sp. Moonstone (70 gp). Tourmaline (60 gp). Golden yellow topaz (400 gp).