Description: She wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. She is portly but not overly obese. Her black hair is thinning but still full. Her eyes are brown and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She uses divination through singing.

History: Merla was born with her father's beautiful face. Her father was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and retire the richest woman in the west

Ideals: Gifted, Impeccable, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 180 gp.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She typically wears red cloth garments or leather armor. She keeps her golden hair in a flapper bob. Her gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. She cares deeply for her spouse and does her best to make sure her guests look presentable.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Carter. She has worked as a Carter like her father before her.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and to be a banker again

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist. Bonds: Job, In love, Rich. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. With wild black hair. Her blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. The war was a terrible time for her, and Lavinia does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. Lavinia was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Lavinia decided she wanted neither the life of her father nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Bellfounder for the past few years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Military, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: This malnourished woman is wearing a long, brown cloak. Her brown hair is greasy and uncared for. Her eyes are blue.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Giselle was born the youngest of three triplets. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Tabaxi artifacts is her passion.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Server

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 90 gp.