Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears a black shirt, with a green mid length shorts with green tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. His hair is cut close to his head. He has black eyes.

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. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Detective for the past few years.

Motivation: Expand his business; and balancing his hectic life and new detective responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Job. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: A stocky darker skinned man, he is dressed in a clean white cloak covering his clean studded leather. His red hair has been sun bleached extensively. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. 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 son.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He worked as a nervous Architect and found it very stressful. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Opinionated. Bonds: Family, Military, Job, Rich. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She wears a black vest and prefers grey and brown shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. She keeps her long white hair kept up in a rat tail. Her ears are large.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: She was born in a small mountains village. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 160 pp. 1 Silk rope.

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears a tan vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her brown leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her tan boots flare out at the collars. Her golden hair is greasy and uncared for. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are violet.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 5000 cp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (90 gp).

Description: This man dresses like a well dressed Mason does. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized opal on his left hand. His black crest, when down, is lengthy. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his gold eyes.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: He comes from a rich western family. A gifted student he started as a Bounty Hunter, but he got bored and became a Mason. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Mason for hire.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman is wearing a long, blue cloak, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her white hair is braided into rings. Her blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from her. She is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Gnome in existence. Tenena enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. She bought a greataxe and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Disease, Hedonist. Bonds: In love, Religious, Nature. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears violet painted combat armor at almost all times. His white hair and beard is wavy and long. His eyes are blue and beady.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: When he was but 3 years old his parents immigrated from the west. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 310 gp. 1 Magnifying glass.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He wears skinny pants and wears a brown and grey robe with the hood down. His golden hair is matted, messy, and big. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Scribe but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: Olunt lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Athletic, Passionate, Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He wears dull blue sweaters, loose brown pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed kukri, just in case. He carries a battered scimitar and tarnished kukri as well. He has no hair. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Halimath is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. 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-sister.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the south. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Elves in the south were limited. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister.

Ideals: Fighting, Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 1000 cp. 1 Chain shirt.