Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears a red vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her green leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her red boots flare out at the collars. She is bald on top and has large golden tufts of hair around her ears. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Professionalism, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 100 gp. Jasper (20 gp). Smoky quartz (20 gp).

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. He has dyed his greying silver hair a little too much giving a sharp silver color. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Detective arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Gilbert has worked very hard to control his curse. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Detective

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 800 gp. Hematite (9 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 5'5" and muscular, this western woman wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her morningstar with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her white hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are gray.

Personality: Rosamund hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her poetry career. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered poetry. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Revenge.

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic, Justice. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 100 gp. Iolite (40 gp). Red garnet (70 gp). Chalcedony (40 gp). Violet garnet (1500 gp). 1 Chain shirt. 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Masterwork Heavy wooden shield.

Description: This eastern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. Her silver hair is long and unkept. Her eyes are blue and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She seeks to pay back kindness whenever she gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip she always seeks to do solids for her friends.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Her parents enrolled her in a Paladin school at a young age so that she could practice her druidic talents. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 600 gp.