Description: A middle-aged man, he is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured, and is pretty ugly. His chestnut hair has been sun bleached extensively. His green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is a Detective first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: Arnold was raised in a hard working conservative environment. His parents enrolled him in a Fighter school at a young age so that he could practice his necromantic talents. He tends to his Detective job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Impulsive. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This man is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft blue waves gently in the breeze. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His hair is long and chestnut with streaks of auburn, and is pulled back with small black clips. His beard is auburn, braided, and well cared for. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Tim was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he desires power and/or immortality

Flaws: Antagonistic, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Baker

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

Possessions: Deep blue spinel (400 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his club with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He has no hair. His green eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Manfred was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Architect. He was granted divine powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 18000 cp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This northern man wears a grey costume with the symbols of the sun god on his torso. His clothes are grease stained in places. His blonde hair is smooth and relatively long. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

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 tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 700 sp. Amber (150 gp). Azurite (13 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His blonde hair is still thick. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He works hard and plays hard.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The mother sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his mother's willingness to do anything to win. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Cook for the past few years.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Flaws: Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Criminal record, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 100 gp.