Description: This woman is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her head has been shaved. Her green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. She is an amazing painter.

History: The child of a Farmer, who enjoyed hunting, Meriele was taken on many hunting expeditions. She always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Meriele fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 1000 cp. Smoky quartz (60 gp).

Description: A 3'1" southern woman, she is wearing a long, blue cloak. Her hair is silver and curly. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She refers to her adoptive father for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. She's also a talented Spice Merchant, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: To be a Spice Merchant again.

Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Family, Poor, Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: She wears a grey costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on her torso. She carries with her a set of scythes on her belt, each one with a jet on the hilt. Her silver hair, when down, is lengthy. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: She was raised in a forest tribe. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting, Passionate. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He wears just a blue suit. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He sports a flattop hair cut. He has hazel eyes and a blue hat with a white feather.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: Lamlis was born with his mother's beautiful face. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. Being a Courier kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This northern man tends to wear a pastel poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His clothes are grease stained in places. He wears a colorful flower in his gray fur. He has a dull look in his yellow eyes.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the north. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He was granted martial powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 30 pp. Tourmaline (70 gp). 1 Silk rope.