Description: This western man is abnormally tall. He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with broad hat. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He has a long auburn beard with little hanging trinkets. He has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. The war was a terrible time for him, and Arannis does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. When Arannis reached his early adolescence his Elf father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he loathes his own lifestyle

Flaws: Sensitive, Depressed. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Military. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 1000 pp. Deep green spinel (60 gp). Aquamarine (1500 gp). Blue quartz (7 gp). Azurite (7 gp). Obsidian (7 gp). Silver pearl (60 gp). Star rose quartz (80 gp). Aquamarine (1500 gp). Jasper (80 gp). Brown-green garnet (60 gp). Red spinel (60 gp).

Description: This eastern man is abnormally tall. He wears silk and lounges about seductively. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy auburn hair. His blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

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 does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Sage but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He was born at the edge of vast desert. Tharivol liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He bought a sai and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: To unite with his brother; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Persistence, Pacifist. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 200 gp. Zircon (50 gp). Emerald (500 gp). Onyx (50 gp). Onyx (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. He is dressed in a clean violet cloak covering his clean studded leather. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He has dyed his greying blonde hair a little too much giving a sharp blonde color. His gray eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He considers himself the perfect gentleman. He makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. 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: Heian was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Shoemaker and was forced into it by his family; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Impeccable, Persistence, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Slave, Family. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: Amber (100 gp). Rock crystal (20 gp). Peridot (20 gp).

Description: A middle-aged man, he is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright tan and blue, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems, and is pretty ugly. His hair is red and curly. He has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Detective born in the past three hundred years. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, he was no stranger to responsibility. Laucian was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Laucian decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and balancing his hectic life and new detective responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Job, Religious, Criminal record. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears light armors faded through time and improper care. He wears a feathered hat to cover his moderate length brown hair. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Beiro is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Born in the west his family was never financially stable. He worked as a nervous Blacksmith and found it very stressful. He became a Blacksmith soon after.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and to be a jeweler again

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 200 gp. An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (90 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (2000 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (60 gp).