Description: This tall, slender man is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. His crest is gold and curly. His eyes are red and catlike.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: He is a pot bellied southern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He prefers to wear black pants and tee shirts. With bright chestnut hair and a scraggly beard. His half smiles and green eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: He got into the Detective business at a young age. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. Some 9 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Alexandre never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Job, In love. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: Onyx (60 gp). Aquamarine (400 gp). Star rose quartz (60 gp). Alexandrite (400 gp).

Description: This man wears suspenders and grey workpants. His shirt is brown, and he wears a heavy grey leather apron most of the time, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He has dyed his greying chestnut hair a little too much giving a sharp chestnut color. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Efferil was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and a deep hatred of dire rats

Ideals: Optimist, Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Mentor, Enemies. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 110 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp).

Description: He is well dressed, constantly wearing a black suit, green shirt, and black tie. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His chestnut hair is thinning but still full. His violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To pay off his debts; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Military, Debt. Occupation: Architect

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

Possessions: 270 gp. 1 Half-Plate.