Description: He wears a white cloak and cross-gartered blue stockings. He carries with him a set of halberds on his belt, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. His long black hair reaches down to his waist. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 13 years.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Detective responsibilities is difficult; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 7000 sp. Moss agate (15 gp). Rock crystal (50 gp). Iolite (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents, and he perpetually has his longbow ready. His auburn hair is thinning but still full. His eyes are amber and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He was born into a rich family. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. 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: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist, Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 120 pp.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He prefers to wear black clothing when he does not wear armor. His blonde hair is knotted and matted. He has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: He was born in the east, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. He worked as a nervous Detective and found it very stressful. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Detective for the past few years.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Professionalism, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 1000 gp. Rich purple corundum (1200 gp). Chalcedony (80 gp). Jasper (80 gp). Amethyst (90 gp). Amethyst (90 gp). Smoky quartz (80 gp). Rock crystal (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He is an epitome of beauty. His black hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His eyes are hazel.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Varis has worked very hard to control his curse. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 90 pp. White pearl (50 gp).

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His hair, while still mostly chestnut, has prominent grey streaks. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Aramil grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Aramil. Being a Soapmaker 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: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and to get a good night's sleep

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Secretive, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: Smoky quartz (70 gp). Lapis lazuli (14 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.