Description: This fat western man has a bulbous nose and is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright brown and black, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy golden hair. His hazel eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Bookbinder. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (800 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2400 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (100 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (100 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears a blue collared shirt and yellow pants. He accessorizes with a white scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. With a patchy golden beard and wild golden hair. His violet eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Detective who has hired him part-time. 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: He was born in the east, but his parents moved at a very young age to the south. In his 20th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Herbalist. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and he feels threatened by others

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Has a crush, Immigrant, In love. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 4000 gp. Malachite (13 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1000 gp). Moss agate (13 gp). Jade (130 gp). Obsidian (13 gp). Red-brown spinel (130 gp). Star rose quartz (70 gp). Red-brown spinel (130 gp). Rhodochrosite (13 gp). Sard (70 gp).

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 5'4" and wears a blue shirt with thin black vertical stripes and green pants. He has no hair. His eyes are blue.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. 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 a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 300 pp. An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (40 gp). Silver ewer (40 gp). Solid gold idol (700 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (150 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.