Description: This exceptionally lanky man typically wears white cloth garments or leather armor. His white hair is smooth and relatively long. He has a dull look in his green eyes.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: Paelias lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He has worked as a Detective like his father before him.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 6000 gp. Smoky quartz (60 gp). Star ruby (600 gp). Blue diamond (8000 gp).

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He wears his brown hair up in a very large beehive style do. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Soapmaker business.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Theren was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. His father worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled father and took his father's old job. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Philantrophist, Persistence. Bonds: Mentor, Family. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 2000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with blue lining and desert motifs. His chestnut hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines brown.

Personality: He is a Barkeep first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. His first spouse was a Gardener, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and regain custody of his daughter

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Rich, Family. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 4000 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). Solid gold idol (1000 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (80 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1000 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.