Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a blue coat. With bright black hair and a scraggly beard. This hazel eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his mother. Heward was born on a far southern mountains where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Cook. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Flaws: Terse, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. He has a chestnut handlebar mustache and slicked back chestnut hair. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gray.

Personality: He is a Detective first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. His parents enrolled him in a Aristocrat school at a young age so that he could practice his divine talents. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Detective for the past few years.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Detective responsibilities is difficult; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Poor. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 1100 gp. Star rose quartz (70 gp). Smoky quartz (70 gp). Black opal (500 gp). Azurite (16 gp). Onyx (70 gp). Iolite (70 gp).

Description: A middle-aged man, he is typically in his Miner uniform, and is pretty ugly. His head has been shaved. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and expand his business

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 400 gp. Red-brown spinel (80 gp).

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He is dressed in a clean grey cloak covering his clean studded leather. He wears a small hat to cover his moderate length brown hair. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. Ostracized due to the necromantic powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Humans became a terror of the countryside. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Joker, Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man is very fat, and likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. His hair, while still mostly brown, has prominent grey streaks. He has violet eyes.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He uses divination through singing.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. A freak accident while working with his Merchant father left him crippled. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Seeks redemption.

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 200 gp.