Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears a white cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Layabout. He has achieved small success as a Layabout.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Layabout and was forced into it by his family; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Bonds: Family, Military, Job. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 1100 pp. Tiger eye turquoise (4 gp). Lapis lazuli (4 gp). Iolite (80 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Violet garnet (1100 gp). Moonstone (80 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp). Star rose quartz (80 gp). Citrine (80 gp). Red spinel (120 gp).

Description: This slender man stands about 5'2". He sports tan clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. His head has been shaved. He has green eyes.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving He has all his life been fascinated with poetry.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. 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 now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 1100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: With blue face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a tattered pair of loose brown pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. He has a red handlebar mustache and slicked back red hair. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Azaki has worked very hard to control his curse. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This northern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing blue cape and mantle trimmed with soft black waves gently in the breeze. His black hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Theriatis was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. 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 now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 170 pp. Hematite (11 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp). Rhodochrosite (11 gp). Deep blue spinel (700 gp). Iolite (20 gp). Rose (20 gp). Hematite (11 gp). Hematite (11 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This malnourished man wears a tattered pair of loose tan pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. His head has been shaved. His eyes are amber and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Detective but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: Born in the west to a Detective, Adran learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. A gifted student he started as a Tailor, but he got bored and became a Detective. 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.

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 20 pp. Star rose quartz (50 gp). Smoky quartz (50 gp). Alexandrite (1000 gp). Rhodochrosite (9 gp). Red garnet (140 gp). Red garnet (140 gp). Banded agate (9 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.