Description: 6'5" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his sword with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His moppish auburn hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and doesn't want to be a detective and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Disciplined, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 4 Smokesticks.

Description: He is a pot bellied eastern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears silk and lounges about seductively. His chestnut hair is thinning but still full. His blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Born in the east his family was never financially stable. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. Being a Cook kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved.

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: Fiery yellow corundum (700 gp). Pink pearl (90 gp). Black pearl (400 gp). Chalcedony (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has moderate length silver hair. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines violet.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic, Passionate, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 11000 sp.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he is wearing a long, brown, dusty cloak. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide his balding. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He does not care much for physical appearances, nor does he care much for other people. He does however care about what he wants and getting it. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Heward is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Justice, Logical. Flaws: Insane, Ugly. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 600 sp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears a fancy brown suit. His long silver hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing painting.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, William grew up listening to his mother's many stories. In his 12th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: To protect his home; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Selfish, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Guardian. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 300 gp.