Description: This tall, slender woman is dressed in earthy colors with a red and black handkerchief worn on her right side. She wears her chestnut hair up. This violet eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes illithids are coming to abduct people. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. At a young age her mother died while driving off some illithids. Her father being the stubborn sort decided to stay and helped train her in lance use. During her travels, Merla and her party rested in a cavern that was (unknown to them) infused with powerful dark magic. Upon awakening, Merla discovered the rest of her party dead, transformed into horrible, mindless undead versions of their former selves. Merla fled the cavern, stopping for breath at a small pool, and only then realizing her own horrible transformation.

Motivation: Many illithids want her driven away; and she loathes her own lifestyle

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease, Depressed. Bonds: Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 30 gp. Smoky quartz (60 gp).

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his quarterstaff, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a rose on it. He has white hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes goblins are coming to abduct people. He will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. He cares deeply for his spouse and does his best to make sure his guests look presentable.

History: Aust hails from a village terrorized by goblins. In his 18th year, his parents were killed by a goblins raid, leaving Aust alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: A deep hatred of goblins.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, In love. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 30 pp. 1 Masterwork Artisan’s tools.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears bulky yellow painted plate armor, and is pretty ugly. She has shaved her head bald. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are amber.

Personality: She is witty, but her monotone delivery comes off as unnerving She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Born to a Hunter, her mother struggled to pay the bills. After coming to the age of reason, Helen took it upon herself to study the psionic arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized grey coat. Her blonde hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She thrives on attention. She does whatever is in her power to gain the attention of whomever she deems a fit date. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the south. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 6000 cp.