Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her hair is short and silver. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: The child of southern immigrants she idolized her father. Merla abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends.

Ideals: Persistence, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: She wears blue painted combat armor at almost all times, and carries ceremonial daggers. Her black hair is still thick. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes orcs are coming to abduct people. Further she is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Doctor arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: A deep hatred of orcs; and revenge

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears skinny pants and wears a grey and blue robe with the hood down. His red hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He has never given up on his painting dream.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, he wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. He has styled his chestnut hair well, parting it to the right. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He has a good heart but also a terrible temper. He will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His parents enrolled him in a Commoner school at a young age so that he could practice his psionic talents. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic, Shy. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 2000 cp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This woman stands a little under 6'3" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She wears a simple white robe with pastel stripes complete with hood. She has wavy auburn hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. She worked as a nervous Slave Trader and found it very stressful. She has achieved small success as a Slave Trader.

Motivation: To be a Dilettante again.

Flaws: Insane, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 360 gp.