Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears a green vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His tan leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his green boots flare out at the collars. His silver hair is smooth and relatively long. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Manfred will drive conversation. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Military, In love. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He wears a grey tunic with blue highlights, and long green pants that bunch up around his shoes. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly sais and flails. His hair is chestnut and curly. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He's also a talented Healer, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Detective and was forced into it by his family; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Job, Religious, Rich, Family. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 500 gp. Aquamarine (600 gp). Freshwater pearl (11 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This southern man wears dark leathers with embroidery. His clothes are grease stained in places. He wears his black hair down. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

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 misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive, Military. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Banded mail. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He wears his brown hair up in a very large beehive style do. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Many dire rats want him driven away; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Philantrophist, Persistence. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 400 gp. 8 Acid flasks. 4 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears baggy black pantaloons and a tan scarf. With a patchy red beard and wild red hair. His eyes are likewise green.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Glassblower who has hired him part-time. 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: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Slave Trader. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: He's in love; and he's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Has a crush, Mentor. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 900 sp.