Description: This malnourished man wears suspenders and white workpants. His shirt is black, and he wears a heavy white leather apron most of the time. His moppish white hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

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

History: Chad was born the youngest of three triplets. Chad was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Chad decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal.

Flaws: Insane, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: With brown face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she is wearing a long, blue, dusty cloak. Her feathered hat is riddled with cuts and holes. She has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Doctor profession.

History: Aline hails from a village terrorized by orcs. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. Some 10 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Aline never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job, Enemies, In love. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: An older woman who has the majority of her body covered in plate, she is not a threatening figure. Her auburn hair, when down, is lengthy. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady gray eyes.

Personality: She is a hateful person. She taunts others and blames them for her problems. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Elizabeth hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. Her parents were killed by dire rats in a raid when she was still a young child. The dire rats captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it; and she's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Selfish. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is lean but muscular and does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His brown hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the east. While he appears to be a normal Human, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. After months of barely getting by, Justin managed to ambush a major caravan with a load of valuables. Instantly wealthy, he made his way to the capital under a new identity.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help.

Flaws: Shy, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 100 pp. Red-brown spinel (60 gp). Blue quartz (15 gp).