Description: A pudgy woman standing about 3'1" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears red trousers with blue and yellow striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. She has styled her red hair well, parting it to the right. She has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. She uses divination through singing.

History: Merla was born with her mother's beautiful face. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and to end her boredom

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 300 sp. Freshwater pearl (8 gp).

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right hand, she wears a fancy red dress. She has moderate length chestnut hair. Her amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She hates brigands. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: She comes from a rich western family. As a young child she wandered into the woods despite her father's warnings against it. Afterwards she claimed she had encountered brigands who tried to eat her hand. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (120 gp).

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her sai with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her deerstalker hat is riddled with cuts and holes. She has a dull look in her violet eyes.

Personality: She fancies herself a trickster and likes to rely on her wits to carry the day. She cares for her older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and to reunite with her absent mother

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: She is a pot bellied eastern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears light armors faded through time and improper care. Her silver crest is drawn into a tight pony tail with a clover scrunchie. Her eyes are a pleasant red.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 80 pp.

Description: Her left side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears a tattered pair of loose violet pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. Her red hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She uses divination through singing.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and to pay off her debts

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 220 gp. Peridot (80 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.