Description: He wears suspenders and white workpants. His shirt is red, and he wears a heavy white leather apron most of the time. He is bald on top and has large blonde tufts of hair around his ears. His violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: Born in the north to a Butcher, Aldous learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 west. He has achieved small success as a Butcher.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Hedonist. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. His hair is chestnut and curly. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the east. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 800 gp. Violet garnet (1600 gp). Violet garnet (1600 gp). Black pearl (1600 gp).

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Humans. Her skin is dark but she possesses many green ritualistic tattoos. She wears a blue coat over a green low-cut shirt, and a deerstalker hat upon her head. Her blonde hair is lengthy. Her brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. The war was a terrible time for her, and Elysande does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: Elysande was raised in a hard working conservative environment. A gifted student she started as a Fortune-teller, but she got bored and became a Detective. She has worked as a Detective like her father before her.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life; and balancing her hectic life and new detective responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Disease, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Job. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 400 gp. Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Emerald (1600 gp). Carnelian (70 gp). 4 Antitoxin. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: She is dressed in a clean grey cloak covering her clean studded leather. Her white hair is well kept. Her blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Agnes was born with her mother's beautiful face. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Flaws: Depressed, Mundane. Bonds: Family, Attractive, In love. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 3000 sp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (700 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp).