Description: She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane, and carries swords. She has a very tight haircut. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: While she is on the job, she is grim and serious. She understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. She is a bit of a macho woman and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Merla was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Halfling conditions. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Nature, Mentor. Occupation: Server

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 400 sp. Azurite (6 gp).

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized grey coat. His brown hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Barendd embodies much of what other species detest in the Dwarves. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: Barendd lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He struck the Shoemaker job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son; and to unite with his brother

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 370 gp.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His black hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gray.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. Zook enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: A powerful wizard made him what he is. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, he put together a working one.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and to protect his home

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Mentor, Slave. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: Amethyst (40 gp).

Description: She typically wears black cloth garments or leather armor. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly flails and monstrous two handed axes. She keeps her blue hair in a flapper bob. Her gold eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic woman, Ronwe's first love is herself. Her second love is also herself. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Bather but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Ideals: Impeccable, Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 150 gp. 1 Bullseye lantern.

Description: This light-skinned female tends to wear a yellow poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her hair is silver and curly. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady brown eyes.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. She is a bit of a macho woman and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and regain custody of her daughter

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature, Mentor. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 1600 sp. 1 Silk rope.