Description: Standing 5'9", this man wears a simple black robe with grey stripes complete with hood. His blonde hair is knotted and matted. This green eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. He cares deeply for his spouse and does his best to make sure his guests look presentable.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Tanner arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand his business; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, In love, Rich. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 30000 cp. Alexandrite (1100 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Sardonyx (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His hair is long and chestnut with streaks of black, and is pulled back with small pastel clips. His beard is black, braided, and well cared for. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and money/treasure

Ideals: Justice, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. Her golden hair is smooth and relatively long. Her eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and doesn't want to be a detective and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Slave, Family. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 200 gp. Smoky quartz (60 gp).

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He wears a broad hat to hide his balding. He has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the east. Rolf was orphaned to a temple shortly after his birth. He was raised by the temple staff to care always for others above himself and to hold his god always in his heart. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 30000 cp.