Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears black trousers with grey and pastel striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. His chestnut hair is smooth and relatively long. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the south. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military, Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a husky man, who is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His hair is chestnut and very short. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gray eyes.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. Frederick enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Frederick was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Mentor, Job. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 3000 sp.

Description: She wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. She carries with her a set of sickles on her belt, each one with a jet on the hilt. She has dyed her greying brown hair a little too much giving a sharp brown color. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. In her youth she was part of a gang. She got caught, but did not rat out her comrades and served her time in prison. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 100 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (5 gp). 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears a black shirt, with a green mid length skirt with green tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. Her chestnut hair has been sun bleached extensively. 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 irascible and easily irritated. She uses divination through singing.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Ostracized due to the necromantic powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Humans became a terror of the countryside. She has worked as a Detective like her father before her.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.