Description: This woman is very fat, and usually wears her red robe and has her axe always slung over her shoulder. She is bald on top and has large golden tufts of hair around her ears. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. Further she is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: Gifted from a young age, Merla studied abroad. Merla was born on a far northern forest where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Mortician. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Addict. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 1400 sp.

Description: She is a pot bellied northern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears tattered old clothes. She has moderate length black hair. Her eyes are violet and beady.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of drow may trigger it at times.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Slave. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her axe with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt, and a wedding ring on her left hand. Her white hair is greasy and uncared for. She has brown eyes and a blue hat with a tan feather.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Elves in the north were limited. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Disciplined, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: In love, Immigrant. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 2000 cp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp).

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She tends to wear a large grey jacket. She has wavy brown hair. She has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. She would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Williamina grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Williamina. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (90 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.