Description: This younger middle-aged man is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants, and a wedding ring on his right hand. His golden hair is lengthy. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Bertram was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. His mother was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. Some 10 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Bertram never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Disciplined, Opinionated, Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Mentor. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 70 pp.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. Her chestnut hair is knotted and matted. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of giants may trigger it at times.

History: Giselle lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Like her mother and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Detective. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Family, Job, Rich. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 20000 cp.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, she is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft black waves gently in the breeze. Her golden hair is braided into rings. Her eyes are hazel and beady.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She is obsessed with her god.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She is content.

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 2000 sp. Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1400 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp). 1 Good lock. 1 Masterwork Thieves’ tools. 1 Masterwork manacles. 1 Average lock.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She wears a red coat over a brown low-cut shirt, and a deerstalker hat upon her head. Her golden hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, she was no stranger to responsibility. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and she is greedy

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 6000 sp. Deep green spinel (100 gp). Amber (100 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1500 gp). Freshwater pearl (8 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.