Description: This malnourished woman wears bulky red painted plate armor. Her hair is short and chestnut. Her brown eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Merla hails from a village terrorized by goblins. Before the accident, she was one of the most outspoken anti-Human activists. She was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Human doctor. She was granted psionic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and many goblins want her driven away

Ideals: Passionate, Gifted. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: 4'8" and muscular, this northern woman wears a tight fitting blue shirt and pants. She wears her white hair down. Her amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she is greedy

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Slave. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 100 gp. Rhodochrosite (16 gp). Pink pearl (60 gp). Banded agate (16 gp).

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears a tan top hat and tan clothes. Her white hair is heavily combed to the left. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, she's a very lovable idiot. 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 on a small isolated farm. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the island to a summer home near a ruined castle. She would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and she was stranded inside. Her family spent the next few days looking for her, and could only assume she was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the island due to the painful memories there. Xanaphia took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up crossbow and armor she uses now. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: To unite with her sister; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Family, Nature, Guardian. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a grey coat. Her hair is short and silver. Her eyes are brown and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with singing. She constantly tries to fill her life with singing. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: Born in the east to a Guard, Juliana learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Juliana was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To unite with her brother.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Job, Military. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: He wears just a black suit. He carries a battered bastard sword and tarnished halberd as well. His white hair is smooth and relatively long. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Courier but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Raam 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 Raam. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Pacifist. Bonds: Criminal record, Guardian. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 90 gp.