Description: This younger middle-aged woman dresses well, wearing red shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her golden hair is well kept. She has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Beatrice grew up listening to her mother's many stories. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Human companion (her 'brother'). Being a Locksmith kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and she's looking for her big break

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 2000 sp. Zircon (70 gp). Rhodochrosite (14 gp).

Description: A stocky darker skinned man, he wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with top hat. His red hair is long and unkept. His fierce blue eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. 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: Wants a kiss; and wants his loneliness to end

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Rich, Has a crush. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty pastel coat over it. She has styled her black hair well, parting it to the right. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Fortune-teller business.

History: Her divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. She was granted divine powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud.

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his rapier, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a clover on it. His chestnut hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. In his 14th 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: To end his boredom; and he feels threatened by others

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane, Fearful. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 600 gp. Sardonyx (40 gp). Jade (100 gp).