Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a brown coat. She wears a top hat to hide her balding. Her eyes are violet.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: She got into the Architect business at a young age. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and balancing her hectic life and new architect responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: Rock crystal (50 gp). Alexandrite (400 gp).

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He is well dressed, constantly wearing a black suit, brown shirt, and black tie. He keeps his brown hair in a pixie cut. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He is an amazing painter.

History: Gifted from a young age, Cory studied abroad. In his 20th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Many dire rats want him driven away; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Sensitive, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 1000 sp.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She is wearing a long, grey, dusty cloak. Her black hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: Hadwisa hails from a village terrorized by giants. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. After a long history of fighting, Hadwisa and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Expand her business; and revenge

Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Detective, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her auburn hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. Her violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. She is kind towards other women and children and will generally offer women help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to her.

History: She got into the Detective business at a young age. Isabella was born on a far southern forest where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Detective. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: In love, Job, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 40000 cp. A silver and pearl hairclip (10 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1500 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1500 gp).