Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She is dressed in an above average manner. She has a very tight haircut. Her amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Merla is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. Her father disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her father, she was betrayed dozens of times. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Server and was forced into it by her family.

Flaws: Depressed, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Rich. Occupation: Server

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears red robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a greataxe, but if one is not available she will default to her hand crossbow. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. She has a dull look in her green eyes.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Adventurer arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and she has a crush on the local apothecary

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Has a crush, Rich. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: She is a pot bellied northern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. Her auburn hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep green.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She bought a trident and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Military, Nature, Rich. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 900 sp.

Description: He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright green and white, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. He carries with him a set of nunchakus, each one with a emerald on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. He wears a Stetson hat to hide his balding. His eyes are likewise silver.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 72. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: This light-skinned female is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her hair is white and very short. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: She was born at the edge of vast mountains. Her mother took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Professionalism. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 1600 sp.