Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His brown hair is still thick. His amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Impeccable, Logical. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Family. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 4000 gp. Tourmaline (70 gp). Rhodochrosite (4 gp). Bloodstone (50 gp). Aquamarine (500 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1400 gp). Malachite (4 gp). Moss agate (4 gp). Citrine (50 gp). Smoky quartz (50 gp). Red spinel (70 gp). Violet garnet (500 gp). Amber (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat northern man has a bulbous nose and typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull grey iron scale mail. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He keeps his brown hair in a flapper bob. His hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Detective. He became a Detective soon after.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Ugly, Cynical, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 300 pp. Chrysoprase (30 gp). Golden yellow topaz (200 gp). Red-brown spinel (60 gp). Citrine (30 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp).

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left leg, he wears white leather gloves, a white jacket, and tight pants. He has dyed his greying auburn hair a little too much giving a sharp auburn color. This green eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

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 is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. As a young child he wandered into the woods despite his mother's warnings against it. Afterwards he claimed he had encountered gnolls who tried to eat his hand. 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: Someone believes him a fraud; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 3000 gp. Chrysoprase (50 gp). Jet (150 gp). Violet garnet (1100 gp). Emerald (1300 gp). Obsidian (15 gp). Amethyst (150 gp).