Description: He dresses like a well dressed Spice Merchant does. His hair is black and very short. His half smiles and blue eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He hates gnolls. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. In his 10th year, his parents were killed by a gnolls raid, leaving Richard alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He has achieved small success as a Spice Merchant.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Flaws: Impulsive, Disease. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 100 gp. Sapphire pendant on gold chain (700 gp).

Description: This man is very fat, and wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. With a patchy white beard and wild white hair. His hazel eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He is obsessed with his god.

History: Gerald was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. After coming to the age of reason, Gerald took it upon himself to study the druidic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He dresses like a well dressed Jeweler does. His black hair has been sun bleached extensively. He has a dull look in his violet eyes.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Jeweler born in the past three hundred years. He disdains his fellow westerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Guardian, Family. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 29000 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This slender man stands about 5'8". He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized yellow coat. He has moderate length blonde hair. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep brown.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the north. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Disciplined, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He is a husky man, who likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He keeps his long chestnut hair kept up in a rat tail. He has blue eyes.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his mother. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and balancing his hectic life and new detective responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature, Job. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 500 gp.