Description: She is in excellent shape and is typically in her Animal Trainer uniform. Her hair is red and very short. Her eyes are brown and beady.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Merla was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She has worked as a Animal Trainer like her mother before her.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Guardian. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears a tight fitting brown shirt and pants. His yellow fur is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. His eyes are yellow and beady.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Guard. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He's also a talented Mortician, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Athletic, Justice, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears a robe, a symbol of death around his neck, and a warhammer on his belt. His brown fur is still thick. This yellow eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: He was born in the east. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. After a long history of fighting, Smoking and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 2000 sp.

Description: This woman stands a little under 6'5" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. Her green crest is still thick. Her gold eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She hates illithids. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Gardener arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her first spouse was a Fisher, they had one daughter, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Philantrophist, Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She has a large green mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her yellow robe. Her red crest is long and unkept. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. She has since married many spouses, only to have them die. She claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Flaws: Ugly, Secretive, Antagonistic. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 400 gp.