Description: An older man who does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it, he is not a threatening figure. He has blonde hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He has achieved small success as a Beggar.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This man wears long strands of opal and short violet dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His amber eyes dart from person to person.

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 has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He was granted martial powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is greedy

Ideals: Justice, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 4000 gp. Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2800 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1000 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (60 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1100 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. He wears his golden hair down. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He disdains his fellow southerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He was born in the south. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and money/treasure

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 180 pp. Solid gold idol (900 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1200 gp). Jeweled gold crown (3000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This slender man stands about 4'7". He wears long strands of ruby and short brown dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His auburn hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father 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 then took over the family business and is one of the better Detective for hire.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Detective responsibilities is difficult; and money/treasure

Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Detective

Voice: American accent

Possessions: Black opal (400 gp). Red-brown spinel (120 gp). Citrine (40 gp). Red spinel (120 gp). Banded agate (9 gp). Hematite (9 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Elf, and stands approximately 4'10". He wears pastel robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a shortbow, but if one is not available he will default to his whip, and his gloved hand is found clutching a whip. His hair is always cut to a buzz. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He works hard and plays hard.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Being born in the south, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the south for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. Being a Map Maker 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: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 1000 pp. Golden pearl (150 gp). Pink pearl (150 gp). Red-brown spinel (150 gp). Black pearl (800 gp). Sardonyx (80 gp). Rhodochrosite (6 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (6 gp). Carnelian (80 gp). Citrine (80 gp). Black pearl (800 gp). Lapis lazuli (6 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Tourmaline (150 gp). Coral (150 gp). Hematite (6 gp). Obsidian (6 gp). Alexandrite (800 gp). 1 Medium magic item.